TAKE OUT YOUR WRITING NOTEBOOK AND ANSWER THE

FOLLOWING. YOU WILL BE EXPECTED TO WRITE UNTIL

INFORMED OTHERWISE.

SUMMARIZE WHAT HAPPENED SO FAR IN HAMLET. BASED OFF OF WHAT WE READ, WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO HAPPEN

IN THE PLAY?

WHEN YOU ARE DONE WRITING, PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL OF

THOSE WHO ARE STILL WRITING BY WORKING ON SOMETHING

QUIETLY.

To understand why it’s important to learn about Shakespeare and read Hamlet.

At minimum, a brief, sketchy understanding of the events in Act 1, Scene 2

To identify the various themes represented in Act 1, Scene 2

At minimum, a brief, sketchy understanding of the events in Act 1, Scene 3

Today’s AgendaToday’s Agenda

Announcements: Have you turned in your SP Reflective Questions and Log #2?

Agenda: What you wanted to know about Shakespeare Why You Should Care about Shakespeare Act 1, Scene 2 Act 1, Scene 3

Homework: Hamlet Logs 1.2 and 1.3 due Tuesday, Feb 28th by 11:59 pm

Complete these on the same word document Label them clearly (1.2 and 1.3) Turn in to turnitin.com

I couldn’t find height and weight.Mental Health issues?

Unclear Depression, OCD, and other mental health issues existed,

but I couldn’t find if Shakespeare specifically had any mental health issues.

Was Shakespeare arrested? I couldn’t find any indication that he was

What was Shakespeare’s most and least favorite plays? I couldn’t find anything that identified this

Did Shakespeare have other lovers? I couldn’t find anything other than his wife, Anne Hathaway

and the Earl of South Hampton All speculation, based on sonnets

As we read make a mark in the margin (annotate) where you see an example of one of the themes of the text

Themes: Appearance vs. Reality Theatre vs. Life “There’s something rotten in the state of Denmark” Family relationships Revenge Thought vs. Action

Also mark anything that denotes setting and information about characters

Share with a peer: what themes did you seeShare with the group

In Shakespeare’s time: When kings or queens represented their countries

and talked about public issues, they used the royal “we”;

When dealing with private matters, they used “I” When a monarch switches from first-person plural to

first person singular, this is a textual clue that signals a change in situation or tone.

Why does Claudius continue to use the royal “we” when addressing Hamlet, whom he calls his “son”?

Look for antithesis, the balancing of two contrasting ideas, words, phrases, or sentences in parallel grammatical form

Examples: “An auspicious and a drooping eye”

What does auspicious mean? What does dropping mean?

“With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage” What does mirth mean? What does dirge mean?

What feelings do these juxtapositions evoke?

Why does Claudius remember old Hamlet with “wisest sorrow” rather than “deep sorrow”?

Why does he say it “befitted” them to bear their “hearts in grief”?

How effective are these word choices?

Although Hamlet’s mourning is of major concern to Claudius, why does he: justify his marriage to Gertrude, deal with Norway’s impending invasion, and respond to Laertes’s petition all before he addresses Hamlet?

Describe the family relationships… Laertes and Ophelia Polonius and Laertes Polonius and Ophelia

What does each of these people want?How do they treat each other?How is this family similar to or different from

the Claudius/Gertrude/Hamlet family? The Old Hamlet/Gertrude/Hamlet family?

Let’s look at Polonius’ speech to Laertes (Act 1, Scene 3, lines 59-81

Look at “but” constructions– “Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar,” for example. What is their effect?

What can we infer about Polonius’s from his choice of words?

What do words reveal about his beliefs, philosophy, and values?

1. Paraphrase Polonius’ speech to Laertes (Act 1, Scene 3, lines 59-81

Paraphrase- To put in your own words “A restatement of a text or passage in another form or other

words, often to clarify meaning. “ ("paraphrase." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. 03 Mar. 2008. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/paraphrase>.)

2. Bring to class on Thursday the best piece of advice that anyone has ever given you.

Mabillard, Amanda. Shakespeare's Death Shakespeare Online. 20 Aug. 2000. (date when you accessed the information) < http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/deathofshakespeare.html >.