January 31, 2020
Standards:
RL.11-12.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly engaging.
Obj: I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in Hamlet and analyze the impact of specific word choices and how they depict the human condition.
Starter:
Free Write Friday
Vocabulary:
Word: Allusion
Part of Speech: Noun
Dictionary Definition: an implied or indirect reference especially in literature
Your Definition:
Activity: Create or find another example of allusion.
Activity:
1. Read Hamlet
As a class, we will read Hamlet Act 1 1.1- Act 1 1.2
Characters
Characters
Narrator
Horatio
Hamlet
Marcellus
Barnardo
Discussion Questions
What is the setting and mood?
Why do you think the Ghost appears? Do you believe that this could be possible?
Why do you think the Ghost appears? Do you believe that this could be possible?
How does Horatio compare to the other guards?
What is the relationship between Claudius and Hamlet?
How would you characterize Hamlet?
What is revealed about the human condition?
2. Hamlet Analysis
With a partner, complete the Hamlet Figurative Language 1.2 activity.
Make a copy of the document and move it to your assignment folder.
First, annotate the soliloquy.
Then, identify five different examples of figurative language used in the speech and analyze the meaning.
When complete, think about the big idea.
Answer: What does this soliloquy reveal about his human condition?
Use the link above to help define unfamiliar terms.
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.
3. BBC Hamlet Production
As a class, we will watch the scenes we read.
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:
What was a similarity and difference between the play and the film?
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