February 24, 2016
E.Q: Identify characteristics of Hamlet using textual evidence.
Use inferences to determine characteristics.
Obj: I can identify characteristics of Hamlet using textual evidence.
I can make inferences to determine characteristics.
Starter:
Review the information in the STEAL chart and Hamlet translation.
Interpret what this demonstrates about Hamlet's mental state by drawing what you think the inside of his head looks like.
Vocabulary:
We will review 5 words as a class, and you will also create your own unique set of terms.
Use Viva Vocab for this element.
You should have 30 words by the end of the unit.
For each activity box use the word in a sentence.
It will go for a grade at the end of the unit.
Activity:
1. Finish Watching BBC Production
As a class, we will watch the scenes we read yesterday.
Pay close attention to the way Hamlet is characterized in the movie compared to the text.
Jot down notes about what is similar and different to what you imagined.
2. STEAL chart and Soliloquy Discussion
As a class, we will discuss the analysis you created yesterday.
Make sure you have your STEAL chart out to share examples.
We will also go over the various translations of the soliloquy.
Prompt: Evaluate Hamlet's mental state overall and share your conclusions with the class.
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two:
So excellent a king; that was, to this,
Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!
Must I remember? why, she would hang on him,
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on: and yet, within a month--
Let me not think on't--Frailty, thy name is woman!--
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she follow'd my poor father's body,
Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she--
O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,
Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle,
My father's brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules: within a month:
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not nor it cannot come to good:
But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue.
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two:
So excellent a king; that was, to this,
Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!
Must I remember? why, she would hang on him,
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on: and yet, within a month--
Let me not think on't--Frailty, thy name is woman!--
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she follow'd my poor father's body,
Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she--
O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,
Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle,
My father's brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules: within a month:
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not nor it cannot come to good:
But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue.
3. Act One Scenes Three- Five
As a class, we will read through the remaining part of Act One.
Continue to observe Hamlet's thoughts, behaviors, statements, etc.
Characters
Laertes
Ophelia
Polonius
Hamlet
Horatio
Marcellus
Ghost
Discussion Questions
What is the relationship between Ophelia and Hamlet?
Analyze the advice Laertes and Polonius give.
What are they really concerned about?
Interpret what the ghost tells Hamlet. Support whether or not the ghost has good intentions.
At the end of Act One, determine if you believe the ghost is real or make believe.
4. TPEQEA
Respond to ONE of the following questions in TPEQEA.
- What is your first impression of the character? What gave you that impression? Did your impression of that character change before the end? Why or why not? (Look back at the descriptions and the character’s thoughts and behavior)
- How does your perception of that character compare with the narrator’s perception? Do you agree with how other characters perceive your character? (Look back at the interactions and descriptions)
- What motivates the character to behave as he or she does.
Closure:
Connection
Explain what you would do if you were in Hamlet's shoes.
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