British Literature  4/6- 4/10

Monday 4/6

1. Journal/Bell Ringer: none

2. Business:

    a. Reminder: CCW FCs due today.

    b. Final Sonnet presentations.

3. Reader's Workshop: Hamlet

    a. Review Study Guides.

    b. Begin Active Reading using Study Guides.

    d. Assign: Finish Act 1.

4. HW: Finish Act 1.

Tuesday 4/7

1. Journal: (Take this one very seriously.)  Invent several questions you have about Shakespeare and Hamlet.  (Perhaps you feel as if you don’t know enough about Hamlet to come up with questions.  If that’s the case, come up with questions you have about any literature – why do we read it?  What’s the big deal?  What am I supposed to learn about?  Etc…) I'll read questions to you as well to help you out.

2. Business: nothing new.

3. Reader's Workshop: Hamlet

    a. Keep your list of questions handy - be prepared to add and revise as we go.

    b. Continue with play: Act 1 w/ Study Guide.
        1) Review situation in first scenes: basic plot line
        2) Assessing Hamlet's state of mind:
            a) Our first encounter: I, ii -- Hamlet speaks with his parents.
                (1) what seems vs. what is
                (2) his general tone and attitude
            b) Hamlet's first soliloquy: I,ii -- A glimpse of Prince Hamlet
                (1) his view of life -- unweeded gardens
                (2) feelings about his father, his uncle, his mother
                (3) his attitude towards suicide
4. HW: Review Act I, scenes 3, 4, and 5

Wednesday 4/8

1. Journal: Revisit your questions from yesterday’s journal. Now that you’ve had 24 hours to let that swim around in your mind, add or revise your questions a bit. Don’t need to revise or add? Then draft out a preliminary answer or ideas for answer based on what we’ve read so far.

2. Business: Final copies of CCWs must be in by the end of the week; grading begins this week.

3. Reader's Workshop: Hamlet

    a. Finish anything left from yesterday.
    b. Working with Scenes 3-5 w/ Study Guide.

        1) Scene 3

            a) Laertes and Ophelia: The manipulation of Ophelia begins.

            b) Polonius and Laertes: Advice from a Fool!

            c) Polonius and Ophelia: Further bludgeoning of Ophelia.

        2) Scene 4: The Ghost Comes

            a) Hamlet comments upon the new King's partying.

            b) The ghost comes - but it is good or bad?

    c. The Ghost's Injunction: I, v
        1) the three conditions of the injunction
            a) revenge his murder
            b) taint not thy mind
            c) leave your mother alone
        2). Hamlet's reaction and plan: I,v

4. HW: Have study guide filled out for all of Act I.

 

Thursday 4/9  

 

1. Journal/Bell Ringer: none

2. Business: Final copies of CCWs must be in by the end of the week; grading begins this week.

3. Reader's Workshop: Hamlet

    a. Is your Study Guide up-to-date?

    b. Begin watching Gibson version of movie - through Hamlet's lunacy "act".   

4. HW: none

 

Friday 4/10

No School