REVISED!!!! Hamlet 2.2 Due 2/15 (A) 2/16 (B) (I'l be checking for completion at the beginning of class) REVISED!!!

Words, Words, Words

Deconstruct Hamlet's Word Play

Words 1 (2.1.185 - 230) - Analyze Hamlet's interactions with Polonius . What's he really saying?  List the puns/double entendres and what they might mean.

Pun/ double entendre	meaning - example
You are a Fishmonger (187)	Polonius fishes for answers by setting bait (2.1) and because he's a spy for Claudius and Gertrude.

  What truths does he tell Polonius?

Words 2 (2.1.235 - 315) - Analyze Hamlet's interactions with Rosencranz and Guildenstern.  Again consider the puns, the double entendres, metaphors, allusion, and tone. What is he really saying?

Pun/ double entendre/metaphor	meaning - example
Fortune and "the middle of her favours" (244)	Lady Fortune, cap = top, sole=bottom, Hamlet says waist as in middle and "favours" as in blessing/light and her "physical" delight.

 

Why is Hamlet using this Language with R and G?What truths does he tell them in lines 234 - 317?

Read Act 3 scene 1

Log Assignment 1.4/5 Due 2/9 (A) & 2/10 (B)

Log for 1.4/5 is a combined Log. Try to focus on scene 5.

For your consideration: Close Reading 1.5.97 - 211. Examine Hamlet's diction and how he speaks to his friends: how does he feel? What assumptions can we make about his state of mind? 

Mind of Hamlet Redux: Given this new information Please Draw a graphic Representation that reflects Hamlet's Current State of Mind.

Read Act 2.1 and Begin your Log.

Log Books Should Be COMPLETE for ACT 1 2/9 (A) & 2/10 (B)

I'll be grading LOGS 2/9 and 2/10 in class. Please make sure ACT one is complete!!!

Hamlet: Mind Fields and "The Effects of This Good Lesson Keep" Due: Periods 2 & 3 2/7; Periods 5, 6, & 7 2/8

The Minds of Hamlet and Claudius

Now that you've met these two characters, draw graphic representations of the mind of each on separate pages AFTER the 1.2 log. Include their character traits, how you see their minds working, feelings (attitude/tone words), and at least three 3 quotes that you think truly capture them. (you should draw them as you wish, symbols, anything that is clear and representative, use tone words and character traits that you believe dominate their thinking)

Read and Complete Log 1.3

Meet The Other Family

Paraphrase in modern language and compose a script in modern colloquial (yes, familiar) language of this scene. 

Reflect: What are your opinions of Polonius, Ophelia, Laertes? Who are they? what does each want? What values and beliefs do they express in their language and interactions? If you're Ophelia, how would you feel living in this home? How is her situation different than Hamlet's? Compare and contrast this family to Hamlet's past and current families.

Include these AFTER your 1.3 logs.

Periods 2 and 3: 1.2 Homework Due 2/3 | Periods 5, 6, and 7 Due 2/6

Due and in this order (revised for clarity):     

A.  Logs: 1.1, 1.2 

B. 2 Close Readings from class set up as two column charts: see examples

C. 1 - 39: Identify the rhetorical devices Claudius uses, the order of whom he addresses, and what he is really thinking (subtext)

Rhetorical Terms: if you need a glossary

Device	Subtext – What they really mean
Antithesis – ‘mirth in funeral/dirge in marriage”(1.2.11)	The juxtaposition of ideas shows that Claudius is ecstatic to be king, and sad that his marriage followed a funeral, but oh well! “I’m King” as he might say. He has to hide his true feelings given the occasion
order of ideas and many others

C2. Examine Claudius' Speech/language (Having identified the order of his address, the rhetorical devices - antithesis, equivocation, diction, juxtaposition) and interactions ll.1 - 96; What does the manner of his language reveal about his character?Who is he, really? How do you know?

D. 1.2.66 - 96: Subtext

Line	Subtext – What they really mean
"a little more than kin and less than kind" (1.2.68)	we're not cousins, you're my uncle and like it or not you are not equal to me. Usurper!

D2. Examine lines 66 - 96. How does this interaction between Hamlet and Claudius reveal the innermost thoughts (subtext) of each. In other words compose reflections that examine: what does each really want? How does each really feel? What does Gertrude want? How do you know? Support your answers with text support.

D3. Consider Claudius' use of the Royal "WE" with Hamlet in these responses. What do the shifts in tone signify about the Mind of Claudius?

E. Paraphrase (independent clauses) 133 - 162 - please put each independent clause in your own words (do not summarize them).