Tuesday, October 16 Gertrude and Ophelia and Laertes

Ophelia distraught
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 quiz tomorrow / another copy below
In class: please turn in the graphic organizer for Act 4, scenes 1-4
              power point review for vocabulary
              graphic organizer for Act 4.5. This is due at the start of class tomorrow, after which it is late, unless you have a legal absence.
              
ophelia's collapse and laertes return

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Wednesday, October 17 class handout / copy below

1. remembrance  (noun) –greeting or gift recalling friendship or affection                   
2.  origin  (noun)- the point or place where something begins                                
3. tedious  (adjective)- lacking in mental interest, boring                                
4.  to indict (verb)- to accuse of a crime                             
5.  to devise –(verb)- to create a plan                              
6.  to pester – (verb)-to annoy someone                             
7.  misogynistic-(adjective)-  having a derogatory attitude towards women                  
8.  torment –(noun) or to torment (verb)- having or creating an intense feeling of pain                            
9. lunacy       (noun)- a state of senseless behavior                              
10. potent (adjective)- having force or authority                

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The following was handed out in class on Monday 10/16

Name ________________________ Act 4, scenes 1-4  graphic organizer for Hamlet

1.      King Claudius has sent Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to find Polonius’ body, but why must he must “not put the strong law on him” (4.3.1) To get to this line count up from line 5. (use text / quotations)

2.      Where does Hamlet tell King Claudius that Polonius’ body may be found? (weave into a sentence using the text from 4.3.33-37; your response should be substantial. Shop about the lines)

3.      What does King Claudius wish of his sending Hamlet to England?(Read text between  4.3.58-65). Weave your response into a sentence. Don't forget the quotation marks.

4. 100 point SUPER BONUS:  reread the lines from between 4.3.58-65, and tell me why would England do what King Claudius wants? To what historically is Claudius referring? Draw on your global knowledge. You do not need to use any textual evidence to answer this.

Something to consider about the following soliloquy: Hamlet finally accepts having to revenge his father’s death as a filial obligation.

How all occasions do inform against me,             And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,                If his chief good and market of his time                        Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.	5..      According to the text,what is the man’s purpose on earth? Weave some text into a sentence.
a beast, no more.                    Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,                      Looking before and after, gave us not             That capability and god-like reason             To fust in us unused	6.      According to the text, what has man that separates him from the beasts? Weave text into a sentence.
A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom             And ever three parts coward, I do not know                     Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;'              Sith I have cause and will and strength and means                To do't…	7.      What reasons does Hamlet give to explain why he must revenge his father?  Weave text into a sentence.