Wednesday, October 21- writing assignment: How Hamlet build's his argument to his mother

Coming up: vocabulary Hamlet 6 review on Thursday
                    vocabulary quiz on Friday
 In class: due today- Figurative language graphic organizer. After the beginning of class, it is 20 points off the top.  Writing grade.
                Class work;  Writing assignment. See copy of handout below. DUE AT THE CLOSE OF CLASS, unless you have an extension. These are due tomorrow at the beginning of class. I have sent a copy to the resource teachers.

Learning targets: I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful.
                                          I can introduce, knowledgeable claim(s), establish the significance of the claim(s), distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and create an organization that logically sequences claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.

Essential question: What techniques are most effective in making a convincing argument?

Name_______________________________   the development of the theme of moral corruption

We have already watched and reviewed this scene.

Directions: In Act 3 Scene 4, Hamlet confronts his mother with her disloyalty. In the following conversation between Queen Gertrude and Hamlet, the prince makes an impassioned argument for why Gertrude could not possibly love Claudius.  In a well-written paragraph of five to nine sentences, show how Hamlet develops his argument.

1.   Read and annotate the text.   Write any observations or comments on the text. Use your notes to write your paragraph.

2.   If you are unsure how to begin: Hamlet attempts to prove to his mother Queen Gertrude that she could not possibly love Claudius by ….

3.   Please begin with an MLA heading. The title of the paragraph is Hamlet’s Conversation. Make sure to weave in textual evidence and include the line citation. 

4.   Use attached lined paper.

QUEEN GERTRUDE	What have I done, that thou darest wag thy tongue
	In noise so rude against me?
HAMLET	Such an act	40
	That blurs the grace and blush of modesty,
	Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose
	From the fair forehead of an innocent love
	And sets a blister there, makes marriage-vows
	As false as dicers' oaths: O, such a deed
	As from the body of contraction plucks
	The very soul, and sweet religion makes
	A rhapsody of words: heaven's face doth glow:
	Yea, this solidity and compound mass,
	With tristful visage*, as against the doom,            *sad face	50
	Is thought-sick at the act.
QUEEN GERTRUDE	Ay me, what act,
	That roars so loud, and thunders in the index?
HAMLET	Look here, upon this picture, and on this,
	The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.     *picture
	See, what a grace was seated on this brow;
	Hyperion's* curls; the front of Jove* himself;     * sun god, head god
	An eye like Mars, to threaten and command;      *god of war
	A station like the herald Mercury                      * god of poetry, abundance
	New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill;
	A combination and a form indeed,	60
	Where every god did seem to set his seal,
	To give the world assurance of a man:
	This was your husband. Look you now, what follows:
	Here is your husband; like a mildew'd* ear,               * rotted
	Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?
	Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed,
	And batten on this moor*? Ha! have you eyes?        *barren land
	You cannot call it love; for at your age
	The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble,
	And waits upon the judgement*: and what judgement   *judgement day	70
	Would step from this to this? Sense, sure, you have,
	Else could you not have motion; but sure, that sense
	Is apoplex'd; for madness would not err,            *like a brain hemorrhage
	Nor sense to ecstasy was ne'er so thrall'd
	But it reserved some quantity of choice,
	To serve in such a difference. What devil was't
	That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind?     * tricked
	Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight,
	Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all,
	Or but a sickly part of one true sense	80
	Could not so mope.
	O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellious hell,
	If thou canst mutine* in a matron's bones,          *mutiny/ rebel
	To flaming youth let virtue be as wax,
	And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame
	When the compulsive ardour* gives the charge,                 *passion
	Since frost itself as actively doth burn
	And reason panders* will.                   *to gratify even if morally wrong
QUEEN GERTRUDE	O Hamlet, speak no more:

Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul