Important information: If you are missing work, please check your parent connect. Anyone who did not take last Wednesday's vocabulary quiz should make arrangements to do so, if you would like to get rid of the zero that is there now. You may not make up work in class.
Some folks did not turn in their cultural iceberg essay. If you were new to the class last week please check the blog for Thursday, September 9.If you have further questions, please see me.
Coming up: power point review for Hamlet 2 vocabulary Tuesday
Hamlet vocabulary 2 quiz on Wednesday, September 20
In class: Period 3 turn in the responses to Act 1. scene 1 (There was some confusion in class, as our texts were not the same. You will receive full credit.
Review of Act1, scene 1 questions;
Name_________________________ Hamlet text responses 1.1 These are both in your text and the film
1. How many times have Bernardo and Marcellus seen “the dreaded sight”?
"twice" (1.1.25)
2. How is the apparition attired?
"In the same figure like the king that's dead" (1.1.41)
3. Why do Horatio, Marcellus and Bernardo think the apparition is offended?
"...it stalks away" (1.1.50)
4. What “in the gross and scope” (1.1.68) of Horatio’s opinion does Horatio think that the apparition’s appearance bodes?
"This bodes some strange eruption to the state" (1.1.69).
5. What happened just before the apparition was about to speak?
the cock crows
6. Answer the following by reading I.i.173-179) To what season do the following lines refer?
Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night long:
And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad;
The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,
So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night long:
And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad;
The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,
So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
7. What is the contemporary term for “the morn in russet mantle clad”?
8. What does Horatio intend to do about the apparition?
tell Hamlet
Hamlet 1.2 viewing Act 1.2 Hamlet and Claudius together
Puns
"A Play on Words"
Using a word or words that have more than 1 meaning.
Examples:
1. I recently spent money on detergent to unclog my kitchen sink. It was money down the drain.
2. Our social studies teacher says that her globe means the world to her.
3. A jury is never satisfied with the verdict. The jury always returns it.
4. Sir Lancelot once had a very bad dream about his horse. It was a knight mare.
5. A dog not only has a fur coat but also pants.
6. Today I've got a pressing engagement. I must go to the cleaners.
7. The principal part of a horse is the mane, of course.
8. Having lots of good cookbooks only makes sense. They contain such stirring events.
SKIP NUMBER 9
10. I used to be twins. My mother has a picture of me when I was two.
11. I work as a baker because I knead dough.
12. What is the difference between a conductor and a teacher?
The conductor minds the train and a teacher trains the mind.
AND…
1.I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
2. I couldn't quite remember how to throw a boomerang, but eventually it came back to me.
3. Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.
4. He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends.
5. There was a sign on the lawn at a drug re-hab center that said 'Keep off the Grass'.
6. Police were called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
7. To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
8. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said 'No change yet'.
9. What did the grape say when it got stepped on? Nothing - but it let out a little whine.
10. The butcher backed up into the meat grinder and got a little behind
1. obstinate- (adjective)- firmly or stubbornly adhering to one’s purpose, opinion
2. slander- (noun)- to make a false and damaging statements about someone
3. condolence- (noun)-expression of sympathy towards a person who is suffering sorrows, misfortune, or grief.
4. filial- (adjective)- of, pertaining to, or befitting a son or daughter
5. cunning- (adjective) skillfully achieving one’s end by deceit
6. conscience- (noun) the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one’s conduct or motives
7. melancholy- (noun) a gloomy state of mind, especially when prolonged; depression
8. neglected- (adjective)- give little attention or respect
9. absurd- (adjective) illogical, or untrue, total nonsense
10. treachery- (noun)- willful betrayal of trust; deception
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