Weekly Agenda 12.12-12.16; 12.19

Miller: The Death of a Salesman

MONDAY

Watch the end of Hamlet

Read Miller’s article “Tragedy and the Common Man”

-shared annotations

-swap responses

HW Journals (don’t forget 50 vocabulary words) due MONDAY.  Upload Hamlet essay to turnitin.com; Read ACT II for Thursday.

TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY

Plot Structures

TERMS

Tragic Characters/characterization: temporary, measuring, subordination, volatility, exploitation, conquest, superlatives

TROPES: father/son, broken pedestal, fatal flaw, anachronic order, deconstruction, mimesis, recognition, reversal, catharsis, staging (4th wall-voyeurism)

THURSDAY-FRIDAY-MONDAY

Finish discussing and watching parts of Miller’s play

Choose and practice Monologue performance.

FINAL: Tuesday, December 20th

Weekly Agenda 12.5-12.9

H A M L E T

MONDAY-TUESDAY

Review ACT 3 through action versus inaction; how does the evidence connect to major conflicts: reason and passion;

order and chaos;

revealing and concealing;

honesty and deception

WATCH Branagh in ACT 3: what do you notice about staging and interpretation of character?

Present Parody

HW Read ACT 4 for THURSDAY; ACT 5 for FRIDAY.  FInish review in #10.

WEDNESDAY

Review #11

THURSDAY-FRIDAY

Review Acts 4-5

ACT 4: What has Hamlet done; what has he become?

-equivocation; “The body is…”

-delay and inaction

-Claudius, foe

What becomes of a sour “state?”

-Laertes, character foil

-Ophelia, Imagery (flowers, innocence)

-father, brother, lover (too many ?)

ACT 5: The duel; Fortinbras

Consider: Pages 307, 339

HW Journal #12: New York Style Review

ESSAY: HAMLET-Choose one prompt and respond in a short essay, prepare to share; Begin reading Death of a Salesman, ACT 1 for TUESDAY.