Wednesday, October 12,Queen Gertrude and Hamlet in her chamber ActIII.iv

                                Hamlet and his mum!

 Learning Targets: I can determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text.
                       I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings.
                      I can analyze a case in which grasping a point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant. (Note H's sarcasm)

      Coming up: vocabulary power point review for Hamlet 5 tomorrow.
                          vocabulary quiz for Hamlet 5 on Friday. (Handed out last Thursday / another copy below).
        In class today: Please turn in your extended metaphor response from yesterday, if you have not already done so.
            I am handing out grade reports. If you have material that you were not given credit for, turn it in. Any other questions must be addressed OUTSIDE of class.
                 Watching Act 3, scene 4: Hamlet and the queen in her private chamber. Hamlet and Queen Gertrude
                  Graphic organizer for Act 3, scene 4 (class handout / copy below)

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Name ________________________________ Queen Gertrude and Hamlet Act III.iv

1.       How does Hamlet respond when his mother tells him: “Thou hast thy father much offended” (III.iv.10)

        Read the above line and respond as is exactly written in the text.

2.       What does Hamlet do when his mother the queen yells, “Help, ho!”?  (III.iv.23) (Read stage directions)

Hamlet forces the queen to look at a picture of old King Hamlet and compare him to his brother King Claudius, Queen Gertrude’s new husband.     Read over Hamlet’s speech carefully.         

Look here, upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man: This was your husband. Look you now, what follows: Here is your husband; like a mildew'd ear, Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor?   Ha! have you eyes? You cannot call it love; for at your age The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment: and what judgment Would step from this to this?...  What devil was't That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind? Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight, Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all, Or but a sickly part of one true sense Could not so mope. O shame! where is thy blush?

3.       From the text list 4 positive attributes of Old King Hamlet a. b. c. d. 4.        From the text, how does Hamlet describe King Claudius? 5.       Weaving text into a full sentence, what reason does Hamlet give for the impossibility that the Queen could possibly love King Claudius?

6.      How does Queen react to Hamlet’s speech? TEXT III.iv.95-96)

7.      The ghost of Old King Hamlet appears (or does he, for the queen never sees him). What does he tell Hamlet?

TEXT (III.iv.11-112)

8.      According to the ghost, who should punish the queen? This not in this part of the play. But refers back to the initial encounter between Hamlet and his ghost father.  “Adieu, Adieu. Remember me.”

9.      What does the Queen think about Hamlet seeing his father? (TEXT 138)

10.   Explain the following said by Hamlet to his mother: “I must be cruel only to be kind” (III.iv.189).

Yesterday's handout

Name ____________________________ extended metaphor   from Hamlet Act III.ii.371-380).

Remember that an extended metaphor refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem. It is often comprised of more than one sentence and sometimes consists of a full paragraph.

 Hamlet expresses his choler (anger) to Guildenstern through the following extended metaphor. In three to four well-written sentences that weave in text, explain the metaphor.

HAMLET	Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of	371
	me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know
	my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my
	mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to
	the top of my compass: and there is much music,
	excellent voice, in this little organ; yet cannot	380
	you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am
	easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what
	instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you
	cannot play upon me.

Hamlet vocabulary 5    quiz on Friday, October 14

1.   discord (noun)- disagreement, lack of harmony (My soul is full of discord and dismay.)

2.   scourge (noun)- whip

3.    garrison (noun); (also a verb- to garrison)- the troops who maintain a fortified place

4.   bestial (adjective)- lacking human qualities

5.   craven (adjective)- completely lacking in courage

6.   scruple (noun)- an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action

7.   conjecture (noun)- an hypothesis that has been formed by speculating

8.   to inter (verb)- to place in a grave

9.   superfluous (adjective)- more than is desired, needed or wanted

10.incensed (adjective)-angered by an unjust wrong.