Hamlet Act IV Due 3/9 (B) or 3/10 (A)

ACT IV Assignment

ACT 4
Please compose Analyses of the following characters in Act 4
Ophelia
Laertes
Gertrude
Claudius

Include: What is each character's motivation in the scenes in which they appear?

1. How does the character feel about the events in Act 4

2. What do other characters say about the character?

3. How is he/she important to the act.

4. What insights do you gain by comparing your character to Hamlet?

5. Do you learn something new about them?

6. What questions are raised by each character's behavior in this act?

7. What questions that you've previously  had are answered by your character's words and/or behaviors?

Due 3/09 (B) or 3/10 (A) as a reminder, these are not simple, one paragraph or one log page reflections. They will take some time and consideration.

Independent Novel Study and Assignments Timeline

 Independent Novel Study Assignment Handouts are in DRIVE

 

Deadlines: 

Complete Novel by the end of Spring Break.

3/24: Select an appropriate work of  Literary Criticism that explores your novel from one of these critical literary lenses:

Feminist

Marxist

New Historical / Cultural

Post Colonial

Eco - Criticism

Critical Race Theory (CRT)

Then assess the value and validity of their argument in the context of your work.

After School Sessions - We will meet after school 3/27 - 4/1 to discuss themes, character, and style in these works. For these you should have notes already prepared about significant questions, issues, themes. (1 project grade for attendance and participation, 1 project grade for prepared notes)

3/27 - Sula

3/28 - Under the Feet of Jesus

3/29 - The Crossing

3/30 - Go Tell it on the Mountain

3/31 - The Round House

3/31: Complete "Found Poem" Exercise and Compose "Found Poem" from a passage in your work  with explanation of relevance... Example is in Dropbox (Project Grade)

Final Paper Submission: 4/4 11:59 PM Remember to proof read your work before you submit your paper. (6 Weeks Test Grade, Project Grade)

Q3 Preparation and Reminders

Question 3 - Open Prose 

Remember that your essay must reflect on a theme from the work you write about and connect it to the Big Question in the Prompt if it is to score above a 4. 

Thus, I'd like you to review theme statements before your timed writing. The following links provide a quick tutorial to remind you of theme, examples, and a frame.

Assignment -Theme Drive Folder

1. Review the material in the theme tutorial file, 

2. then read the sample theme statements and feedback from the presentation

3. with these works as a guide (Ma Rainey, Streetcar, or Song of Solomon) please compose responses to 1982, 2004, and 2006 Prompts from the Question 3 Handout (only one work per prompt).

4. After you draft your responses using the template format, type your work on a google document and share it with your class drive folder (label the doc with you name + Q3) 

5. Due Friday (B) and Monday (A) (3rd period should do this tonight).

Timed Writing Prep ALL - I'll post Q3 tomorrow

Please Review The Attached High Scoring Essays for XIV by Walcott and the Essays for Under the Feet of Jesus

Walcott link - 2015 Q1 Essays and Scoring guide

Hamlet Update - And Mock Exams

Hamlet Act 3, Scene 2:

1.Summarize the Player King's speech 3.2.177 - 206. What lines are most important?

2. Go back to the "To Be, or not to be" assignment. With a partner, or solo, record a video of the debate between two voices. You may shoot in one take, multiple takes, with masks, as a cartoon (powtoon or moovly the-5-best-video-animation-alternatives-to-powtoon)

The more creative the better.  DUE 3/3  When you are finished, drop them in the correct period folder:

DRIVE

3. Read 3.3 and watch out for video tutorials that I post.

Hamlet Act 3 scene 1 Due 2/23 (B) and 2/24 (A)

Hamlet 2.1/2.2/3.1(logs and "to be or not to be") - Submit 2/23 (B) and 2/24 (A) with All Assignments complete.

ACT 3 scene 1 extensions: Please complete these as Word Documents

Act 3 scene 1 A:

1. Complete a paraphrase of "To be or not to be": soliloquy (ll. 63 - 95).

2. This soliloquy IS a debate/argument Hamlet has with himself. Separate the arguments in your text (I used a highlighter),  then go to the Hamlet Drive Folder   and download the blank "to be or be not to be"  document and type up your argument OR separate the two sides of the argument from an electronic text ( to be link ) and paste them into their respective boxes. 

3. What is Hamlet thinking about here and why? Which phrases from the soliloquy reflect specific events in the play (past, present, and/or future). Be sure to connect a minimum of two and explain their significance.

Act 3 scene 1 B:

Traditionally, there have been three ways of playing this scene that I asked you to write as Questions in your text. 

Reflect:  Consider the implications (your understanding of the scene) for each of the following in Hamlet's scene with Ophelia (ll.98 - 158): 

1.He knows he's being watched.

2. He never knows. 

3. He doesn't suspect but discovers that he's being watched.

Hamlet 2.2 Assignments Pt. 2 Due: 2/21 (B), 2/22 (A) These will count in 4th 6 weeks

READ Act 3, scenes 1 and 2 BEFORE: 2/21 (B), 2/22 (A)

Hamlet 2.2 Assignments Pt. 2 

1. Having completed the two language charts from the previous assignments go back and review what Hamlet says. As your charts demonstrate, He plays with language and words in this scene. When is he telling the truth? Does the artifice of his language change when he tells the truth? How?

2. Construct a brief monologue as lines of poetry from the truths Hamlet speaks to Polonius (2.2.185 - 230); then compose a reflection that explains how you KNOW he's telling the truth here.

3. Construct another monologue as lines of poetry from the truths Hamlet speaks in his interaction with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (2.2.230 - 315) ***2nd and 3rd periods: we began these in class so please complete them.

4. Construct a paraphrase of "O What A Rogue" (2.2.551 - 608)

5. Reflect: What does Hamlet reveal about himself in this Soliloquy that we have not seen before? This is his first direct characterization of himself. Are these also truths? How? Why does he see himself in these terms? Please embed quotes in your reflection.

If you missed class on 2/16 then you need to add these tutorials to your play and notes as they WILL help frame your thinking for these responses and those in the days ahead

Tutorial 2.2.325-332 Hamlet's Need Need For Order

Tutorial 2.2.451 - 465 Hamlet's Obsession with Pyrrhus