Weekly Agenda 11.28-12.2

H A M L E T

MONDAY-TUESDAY

Review M/C

Watch Act 1

Review Act 2

-Ophelia-dramatic reading

-Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

HW Read ACT 3 for FRIDAY-Entry #10:Acts 3-5 review;

#11:Independent Reading, next 60 pp, due MONDAY.

WEDNESDAY

Watch Act 2

THURSDAY

Poetry Timed Writing

FRIDAY

Review Act 3

-Soliloquy

-”the set up”

-”play”

-action and inaction

-mother and son

HW Add to #10, and #11

Next: Parody Assignment

Weekly Agenda 11.21-11.23 Thanksgiving

H A M L E T

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY

Review #9

-Shakespeare style (see text)

--diction

--inversion

--delay or interruption

--pun/word play

--implied stage action

Key Quotations

Act 5 structure

ACT 2, Scene 2: Ophelia/Polonius

WATCH (Gibson, Branagh, Hawke)

HW FINISH reading ACT 2 for MONDAY, and complete review questions --add to #9.

THANKSGIVING BREAK

Weekly Agenda 11.14-11.18

Sophocles: Oedipus Rex

Shakespeare: Hamlet

MONDAY-TUESDAY

Get Books: Oedipus Cycle, Hamlet, Death of a Salesman

(Standard Deviants Video Clips: “Aristotle and Tragedy”)

Read excerpts from “The Poetics”

-apply to Oedipus Rex

-”Is it really a tragedy” activity

Reciprocal Reading
-predict, read -INDIVIDUAL

-summarize, question, clarify -GROUP

HW for WEDNESDAY, read Oedipus Rex, create 3-level questions.

WEDNESDAY

Review Oedipus Rex

THURSDAY-FRIDAY

BACKGROUND

Elizabethan England

-chain of being

-beliefs, superstitions

-language

Shakespeare Life and Times

-theater and performance

-biography

#8: Virginia Woolf's "Shakespeare's Sister"

HW Read Hamlet, ACT 1 for FRIDAY

SAVE for MONDAY

Hamlet, Act I

-characterization

--archetypes

--language

WATCH (Gibson, Branagh, Hawke)
HW for MONDAY: Read Hamlet, ACT 2, Scene 2 for MONDAY; Complete Journal #9 Worksheet Review Qs

Weekly Agenda 11.7-11.10

MONDAY-TUESDAY

Share approach to  Auden poem, "If I Could Tell You"

-prompt/analysis

-rubric

-thesis (essay outline)

Act III: My Fair Lady: Ball

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHTVFWg0Ouw

Review Act IV

Model Reader's Response: Typed, MLA, hard-copy, 1-2 pages.  Due FRIDAY.

Organizational strategies, original voice, focused thesis, and apt direct references to text are necessary to a good response.

LINK: Stevens' Reader's Response sample (this is for a short story, which is a little different)

Possible responses:

A.  Choose a minor character from the play and analyze his/her role.  Examples include:

• Mrs. Pearce
• Clara
• Colonel Pickering
• Alfred Doolittle

B.  Choose a symbol, pattern, or theme and trace its significance throughout the play or scene.  Examples include:

• Middle Class Morality
• Male Mastery
• Narcissism
• Artist's lack of control over their subjects
• Victorian class system

Due to turnitin.com by MONDAY, November 14th, 2016, and in hand (hard copy) Tuesday, Nov 15th, 2016.

WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY

Shaw's Ending

Return Pygmalion,

→ Get Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, Death of A Salesman

HW READ Oedipus Rex for Wednesday; Reader’s Response due MONDAY PM