Tuesday, October 13 developing themes in Acts I and II

Many folks did not turn in their writing assignment from Tuesday, October 6, entitled "philosophical quick write." You had two excerpts from Hamlet's conversation with Rosencrantz and Guidenstern to paraphrase, apply to a situation in the play and then apply to your life. If you did not turn in the writing, you will see a zero under that column in your grades. Please rectify this.

If you were absent for Thursday's quiz please see Mr. Calderon.  Many of you did not turn in the "O, what a rogue" graphic organizer. Please turn this assignment today, or you will receive a zero.

Moving on... 

Coming up: vocabulary quiz on Friday, October 16  handout from last Thursday. See list below.
In class: thematic graphic organizer. Class handout / copy below. DUE AT THE START OF CLASS ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15.

Learning Target:

I can determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text.
I can apply the understanding that usage is a matter of convention and can change over time.
 Essential question: How is dialogue within Shakespeare's Hamlet reflective of larger social and philosophical issues?

Whilst you are working on this INDEPENDENTLY in class, I'll call you up individually, so as you may see what you are missing. I do not have extra copies of the missing work. Please check the blog.

Name___________________________  Thematic graphic organizer  Due at the beginning of class on Thursday, Oct 15.

Themes: 

1. Moral corruption and the consequent

 dysfunction of family and state.

 2. Revenge and the complexity of taking

 revengeful action

 3.  Appearance and reality and the 

difficulty of discovering and exposing the truth

 in a corrupt society.

  4. Mortality and the mystery of death

  5. Women

     As a thematic review of Acts I and II, complete the attached chart

1.     Copy the first line of the quotation into the column that best supports the theme. Note some fit in more than one category. If that is the case, there is no need to copy out the line again, but note that it is “also applicable.”

2.     Identify the speaker

3.     Speaking about or to whom

 Fourteen quotations to identify. As this is a substantial assignment, it will count in the writing category. You have class time.

1.   Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not "seems." (I.2.76)

2.   Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. (1.2.179)

3.   O, that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew. (1.2.129)

4.   Frailty, thy name is woman! (1.2.146)

5.   This above all — to thine ownself be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. (I.3.78)

6.   Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. (1.4.90)

7.   There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. (1.5.168)

8.   O, villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! (1.5.105)

9.   There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. (2.2.253)

10.               The play's the thing,
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. (2.2.613)

11.               What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her? (2.2.569)

12.               I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. (2.2.258)

13.               Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief. (2.2.90)

14.               What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? (2.2.313)

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                                  Hamlet by William Shakespeare vocabulary Quiz 5 Friday October 16, 2015

The quiz will be 11 matching and 11 contextual sentences

1.      deject (adjective)- dejected, made gloomy

2.      malefactions (noun)- evil deeds, crimes, wrongdoings

3.     cue (noun)- anything that excites to action; stimulus

4.     to besmirch (verb)- soil, tarnish; discolor

5.     resolution (noun)- a decision or determination; a resolve

6.     oaths (noun)- promises

7.     modesty (noun)- regard for decency of behavior, speech, dress, etc.

8.      cuckolds (noun)- husbands of unfaithful wives

9.     entreat (verb)- to beg

10.cozen (verb)- to cheat, deceive, trick

11.felicity (noun)- state of being happy, bliss