Wednesday, September 20 Act 1, scene 3 Ophelia / Polonius and Laertes

Coming up: Thursday, September 21 (tomorrow)...identifying character quiz...who's who and who is related to whom. Review your character chart.

In class: watching Act 1, scene 3: Polonius / Ophelia / Laertes / vocabulary quiz / new vocabulary copy below: Hamlet 3; handout on Act 1, scene 3. due tomorrow / Thursday- at the beginning of class.
IMPORTANT: anyone who did not turn in the responses for Act1.scene 2 has a zero in parent connect. Change that grade; get your material in!

Link for act 1, scene 3:act 1.3 Polonius / Laertes / Ophelia: filial and fatherly advice

Name ________________________ Hamlet Act i.iii  conversation between Laertes and Ophelia and later Polonius’ advice to his children.

Who is Laertes?  Laertes is a young Danish lord, the son to Polonius (King Claudius’ chief advisor) and brother to Ophelia. He spends a lot of time at college, but manages to pack much adventure in when he is back home in Denmark.

Who is Ophelia? Ophelia is the daughter of Polonius and sister to Laertes. She was once Hamlet’s love interest, but he has come to reject her of late.

Who is Polonius? Father to Ophelia and Laertes and chief adviser to King Claudius.

Please paraphrase the following lines from Ophelia and Laertes; that is put into your own words. (This is for questions 1 and 2).

1.      Laertes speaking: “For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favor,

Hold it a fashion and a toy in the blood,…

Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,

The perfume and suppliance of minute (I.iii. 5-10)

  

2.     Ophelia speaking: “I shall the effect of this good lesson keep

…….but, my good brother,

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do

Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven

Whiles…

Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads  (I.iii.45-50).

3.     Polonius speaks:   Using textual evidence, list 5 pieces of wise advice that Polonius gives Laertes.

There; my blessing with thee! And these few precepts in thy memory See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that. Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine ownself be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Hamlet vocabulary 3 by William Shakespeare Vocabulary Quiz Wednesday, September 27

The quiz will be 10 matching and 10 contextual sentences

1.     calamity- (noun) a great misfortune or disaster
2.     heir- (noun) a person who inherits or has right of inheritance in the property of another following the latter’s death.
3.     To confine- (verb) to shut or keep in
4.     commencement- (noun) beginning, start
5.     hypocrite- (noun) a person who pretends to have virtues,        principles 
6.     virtue- (noun) goodness
7.     to deprive-(verb) took away
8.     to harrow-(verb) distresses the mind or feelings
9.     imminent- (adjective) likely to occur at any moment
10.    incentive- (noun) something that encourages a person to do something or to work harder