Coming up: Friday, September 25 vocabulary quiz (copy of words on Friday, September 18 blog)
In class: introduction to William Shakespeare's tragedy
collecting the text from the library
Hamlet. KWL: What I know, What I want to know, What I learned
class handout / copy below
If you are absent, please watch I.i.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-NLnsq3P7Y&list=PL8653490E2C680C5C
In class, we are watching the video of Act I.i.
WHY Hamlet?
Four hundred years have passed since William Shakespeare penned his last play. Yet his prose, plots and characters are as alive today as they were when the plays were originally staged during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Shakespearean works are required reading for high school English students and a course or two for college students who study writing or literature. The plays have been performed in almost every language, on stage and screen and at popular festivals around the world. Even in prisons, teachers find that Shakespeare offers contemporary connections that open pathways to learning for some of society’s most marginalized.
So who is reading and performing Hamlet today?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCk38bDbot0
(watch up to 1:28)
In class: Introduction: KWL: What I know, What I want to know, What I learned
class handout / copy below
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