February 23, 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:
Summarize Act 1 Scene 1-2 in 3-5 sentences.
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 Reading Hamlet
As a class, we will read Hamlet Act 1 1.1- Act 1 1.2
Characters
Bernardo
Francisco
Horatio
Marcellus
King Claudius
Queen Gertrude
Hamlet
Polonius
Laertes
Voltimand
Cornelius
Characters
Bernardo
Francisco
Horatio
Marcellus
King Claudius
Queen Gertrude
Hamlet
Polonius
Laertes
Voltimand
Cornelius
Discussion Questions
Why do you think the Ghost appears?
Why do you think the Ghost appears?
Do you believe that this could be possible?
What is the relationship between Claudius and Hamlet?
How would you characterize Hamlet?
What is your initial impression of Hamlet?
Fill out both columns of the chart.
Make sure to include line numbers and explain your reasoning.
You may complete this chart with a partner.
You may complete this chart with a partner.
3. Hamlet Analysis
With a partner, translate the lines into a language that is understandable to you.
You may use any sort of style that is suitable for you and your partner.
When complete, think about the overall mental state of Hamlet.
Answer: What does this soliloquy reveal about his mental state?
Hamlet's Soliloquy
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.
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.
We will discuss this as a class.
Closure:
Predict what will happen in the rest of Act One.
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