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

Monday, Hamlet Act 1, scene 2,,,first soliloquy / oxymorons

   

         Curriculum Night is this Tuesday,
 September 19 from 6:00- 8:00
   missing work: Act 1.1 responses 
f    period 3: Avi, Yami, Idallis, Aneasha
     period 9: Darius, Michelle, Jhanyria, Mya, Tyler, Trezjir, Rae'iona, Maurice
         
       Absent? Check the blog, so you know what you missed. There are lots of class details, including handouts. When you return, ask for the handout you need. Missed a quiz? mmmmm Make arrangements to make it up. Legal absences have 10 days. You may come in anytime, but class time. Check your parent connect to make sure I did not miss something. I put in zeros, until work is received.

  Coming up: Tuesday, September 19- vocabulary review
                            Wednesday, September 20 vocabulary quiz (another copy of this week's list below)
                       Thursday: in class writing.

           Were you absent for last Wednesday's quiz?  Best make it up or keep the zero. You may make up your work anytime during the day, with the exception of class time. Ask me for a pass.
I         In class: oxymorons
                          viewing Hamlet Act 1, scene 2 
         
                       LINKS   
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Hamlet act 1.2      Hamlet act 1.2 watch through soliloquy to 3:31

                          accompanying comprehension sheet (class handout / copy below)  This will be collected at the beginning of class on Tuesday. LINK to the material.
                          


P   Please copy the following definition for an oxymoron and the samples that follow into your notebooks.  Then copy the definition of a soliloquy. I will be collecting the notebooks at the close of class on Tuesday and returning them on Wednesday. 

   An oxymoron is a figurative language 
   device in which apparently contradictory 
    terms appear in conjunction.  Some 
     examples: 

     sweet sorrow     awfully nice   climb down

   living dead           objective opinion    known secret

 vegetarian meatball    icy fire        working vacation
        soliloquy -an act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud when by oneself

      

  From Hamlet: I must be cruel, only to be kind.

Name________________________ Hamlet  I.2.   Use correct citation format

            

1.      Look at the following lines and decide where Claudius’ oxymorons  (figurative language term for contrasting terms) falls: I.2.10-15.   

Negative feeling: dole                                                                      Positive feeling: delight

           

           

2.      Why has Laertes come to Denmark and to where does he wish to return? (I.2.50-53).

3.      Hamlet makes his sullen entrance. When Claudius asks him: “How is it that the clouds still hang on you?” (1.2.66), Hamlet replies: “Not so, my lord. I am too much in the sun.”(I.2.67). Explain this pun.

4.      What reasons does Claudius give to Hamlet, so that the prince will stop grieving over his father’s death? (I.2.94-99).

1.____________________________________________________________________________ 

 2.__________________________________________________________________________

3.___________________________________ _________________________________________     4._____________________________________________________________________________

5.___________________________________________________________________________ 

   6.____________________________________________________________________________

Read Hamlet’s soliloquy (noun; an act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud when by oneself); (1.2.122-159) See below.

5     Hamlet is clearly depressed? What is indicated in the text that he might wish to do?   __________________________________________

6     Explain what Hamlet means when he says life is like an “unweeded garden” (1.2.134).

___________________________________________________________________

7. How long after King Hamlet’s death was it that his mother remarried? USE TEXT AND CITE

__________________________________________________________________________

8. Who was Hyperion? (deduce, if you do not know) and who in Hamlet’s mind does he represent?

_____________________________________________________________________________

9. What is a satyr? Who in Hamlet’s mind does this represent?

___________________________________________________________________

10. “Frailty, thy name is woman” (1.2.146)

In a well written sentence, explain Hamlet’s attitude towards his mother’s actions.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Quiz on Wednesday, September 20

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

Thursday, September 14 characters / connections

Hamlet character chart 

Coming up: vocabulary quiz on Wednesday, September 20 (another copy below)
                    power point review on Tuesday
Anyone LEGALLY absent yesterday has 10 days to make up the quiz; otherwise you have until tomorrow. This may be made up anytime during the day, with the exception of your class time. 
 In class: where Shakespeare is performed': see link below
               Characters and relations: image above and class handout.
                Text questions: 1.1 (class handout) based on Act 1, scene 1  watch film: act 1, scene 1 ramparts with ghost
                   


Four hundred years have passed since William Shakespeare penned his last play. Yet his prose, plots and characters are as alive today as they were when the plays were originally staged during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.Shakespearean works are required reading for high school English students and a course or two for college students who study writing or literature. The plays have been performed in almost every language, on stage and screen and at popular festivals around the world. Even in prisons, teachers find that Shakespeare offers contemporary connections that open pathways to learning for some of society’s most marginalized.
So who is reading and performing Hamlet today?
LINK: Who is reading and performing Shakespeare?
watch up to 2:32
 introducing the characters.

Today's learning target: I can analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).             

Main Characters:

Hamlet: Son of a murdered Danish king (who was also named Hamlet) and nephew of the present king, Claudius.  

Claudius: The new King of Denmark, Hamlet's uncle. He married Hamlet's mother, his brother's wife, within two months after the old King Hamlet's death.

Gertrude: Queen of Denmark, Hamlet's mother, and widow of the murdered king.  She marries Claudius, old King Hamlet's brother.

Ghost of Hamlet’s Father, old King Hamlet. 

Polonius: Bootlicking Lord Chamberlain of King Claudius; father to Laertes and Ophelia

Ophelia: Daughter of Polonius; sister to Laertes  She loves Hamlet

Laertes: Son of Polonius, brother of Ophelia.  

Horatio: Hamlet’s best friend.  

Marcellus, Horatio and Bernardo: Officers who are the first to see the ghost of Hamlet’s father.  


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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”?

2.       How is the apparition attired?

3.       Why do Horatio, Marcellus and Bernardo think the apparition is offended?

4.       What “in the gross and scope” (1.1.69) of Horatio’s opinion does Horatio think that the apparition’s appearance bodes?

5.       What happened just before the apparition was about to speak?

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.

7.     What is the contemporary term for “the morn in russet mantle clad”?

8.     What does Horatio intend to do about the apparition?

Friday, September 15 puns viewing Hamlet 1.1.2

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?

               Christmas

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.

7.     What is the contemporary term for “the morn in russet mantle clad”?

dawn

8.     What does Horatio intend to do about the apparition?

tell Hamlet

Hamlet 1.2  viewing  Act 1.2 Hamlet and Claudius together

FUN WITH PUNS
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 

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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