Tuesday, September 19 Horatio informs Hamlet of seeing his father Act 1.2 to end

Coming up: vocabulary quiz tomorrow. Another copy of the list below that was handed out last Wednesday.
In class: collecting responses for Act 1, scene 1 / review
review of this week's words.   
On Thursday, you will have a character identification quiz. Review your character chart. See blog for Thursday, September 15 for a copy of the chart and details on the characters.
ALL classes, please hand in your notebooks for checking. 

ALL classes, take out your Hamlet text.
Period 3 take out yesterday's handout 1.2 questions.
   Turn to the back page soliloquy and respond to the questions.

Periods 6 and 9 hand in yesterday's handout
               
               finishing Act 1.2 (link below) group discussion. If you are absent, make sure to have watched and responded to the questions. 


Discussion questions for Hamlet Act 1.2 beginning after Hamlet's first soliloquy and his friend Horatio enters (1.2.159). Film  link beginning at 3:31. Horatio enters after soliloquy 3:31

1. Why has Horatio come from Wittenberg to Elsinor?

2. Horatio commiserates with Hamlet over his father's death, telling him that his father was a "goodly king" (1.2.186), whilst Hamlet responds: "[He] was a man, take him for all and all" (1.1.187).
 What is Hamlet's attitude toward his deceased father?  

3. How have Horatio, Marcellus and Bernardo seen the apparition attired?

4. Explain Horatio's description of how the apparition looked:
 "A countenance more in sorrow than in anger"(1.2.232).

5. How does Hamlet wish to handle this news?
     a. who should Horatio, Bernardo and Marcellus tell?
     b. What does Hamlet suspect might be the cause of his father being dressed in armor?

6. Explain the couplet at the end of the scene:
      "..............Foul deeds will rise, /Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes" (1.1.257-58).

7. Anyone know what color was the ghost's hair? "sabled silvered"   20 point bonus: what figurative language device is this?   


QUIZ tomorrow  (material handed out last Wednesday)

The quiz will be 10 matching and 10 contextual sentences

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) skilling 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