Please turn in your completed the thematic graphic organizer at the start of class. Any not received now will receive a 20 point deduction off the top.
Links for today's material, if you are absent:
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern debriefing with Claudius https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nM_Oqd6Ers&index=13&list=PL8653490E2C680C5C
Hamlet's advice to the actors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtYCXO-jAJg&index=14&list=PL8653490E2C680C5C
The Murder of Gonzago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alfutKH2388&list=PL8653490E2C680C5C&index=15
Coming up: vocabulary quiz tomorrow. The review will be immediately before the quiz.
Learning targets: I can apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.
I can determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases.
I can analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama.
Essential question:
In class: Where lies the truth between appearance and reality?
When we last watched and reviewed the play, Hamlet had asked the traveling players to perform "The Murder of Gonzago'; however, the prince wished to insert "a dozen or sixteen lines", the reason being: "...The play's the thing / Wherein [he'll] catch the conscience of the King" (2.2.615-16).
Class plot questions: According to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, how did Hamlet treat them?
What have they observed about their friend?
What does Claudius propose to do with Hamlet?
Why does Claudius think this would be helpful to Hamlet?
Insight: What might be Claudius' ulterior motives?
What does Polonius suggest as an alternative?
Insight: Polonius tells Claudius that "The origin and commencement of his grief / Sprung from his
neglected love." What is Polonius insinuating? How could his statement be considered ironic?
Insight: explain what Claudius means when he says, "Great ones must not unwatched go."
Act 3.2: Hamlet's theatrical advice to the players.
What is the point of this?
What does Hamlet ask of Horatio?
In what way is Hamlet's request logical?
The court enters and Hamlet lightly banters with Polonius, making a pun on the statesman's having played Julius Caesar in a play: "It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf there."
Hamlet refuses to sit by his mother and chooses rather to "lie in [Ophelia's] lap.
insight: In terms of the plot, why might this be significant?
insight: In terms of composing a play, why might this be significant? (Think of the time period in which the play was written.)
And so they all watch the performance.
What is Claudius' reaction?
What does Hamlet think of the ghost's words now?
When Horatio points out Claudius' behavior, Hamlet responds: He like it not perdy (par dieu= by god) Paraphrase.
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