Test Date: Monday, January 26
Test Format: You will be given several direct quotes from Act 2. To earn maximum points for each quote, you must:
a. Identify the speaker
b. Place the quote into context
c. Analyze the quotes (using literary terms, literary techniques, and vocabulary)
d. Explain the significance of the quote to the plot structure and themes
Literary Terms and Techniques:
In your overall analysis of the quotes, you are expected to:
a. incorporate all of the literary terms on this sheet in your discussion
b. identify and analyze each of the literary techniques listed on this sheet
c. use vocabulary words
d. underline literary terms, techniques, and vocabulary words
Literary Terms:
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
CLASSICAL ALLUSION
EXPOSITION
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
FOIL
IMAGERY
INTERNAL CONFLICT
PROTAGONIST
RISING ACTION
SOLILOQUY
THEME
Literary Techniques:
CHARACTERIZATION
HYPERBOLE (period 7 only)
IRONY
METAPHOR
OXYMORON (period 7 only)
PARADOX (period 7 only)
PUN
SYMBOLISM
Vocabulary:
Properly spell and correctly use at least one vocabulary word from Unit #5 per quote analysis
* Study Tips:
1) Reread Act 2
2) Reread any homework, class notes, and worksheets associated with Act 2
3) Review the list of characters and list their characteristics (know who’s who and who would say what)
4) Jot down notes and examples from the text for each term and technique
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
H.W. W 1/21 Period 7
Hamlet 2.2.240-338 – 3.1 Questions
Directions: Respond to the following questions in complete sentences. Underline your vocabulary words.
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1. Puns are phrases that have two levels of meaning. There are many puns contained in 2.2.187-237. Find three puns and copy them, citing the act, scene, and lines in parenthesis.
Then, explain the possible meanings for the puns you found.
2. 2.2.295-338 is rich in figurative language. What language tricks does Shakespeare use in this passage? Provide examples and explain their meanings.
3. Find examples of classical allusions in 2.2.445-574
4. It has been said that the allusion to Aeneas’ tale of Priam’s slaughter is a puzzle. Try to decode this puzzle. What message is Hamlet seemingly trying to convey?
5. Copy and cite images from the soliloquy that express Hamlet’s self-image. Discuss the significance of these images. How does he feel about himself, and why does he feel this way?
6. Why does Hamlet berate himself?
7. State, as clearly as possible just what Hamlet’s inner conflict in his soliloquy and whether he resolves it.
Reminder: Test on Act 2 will be Monday, January 26
Additional Reminders:
- Make sure to turn in any late work / edited work / make-up tests by this Friday!
- If you're looking for extra credit, scroll down the blog to the list of links. Click on Freerice to play a vocabulary or grammar game. Press print when you're done playing, write your name on the paper, and turn in for extra points! Try to make it to level 30!!!!
- The junior student council has organized a bowling trip for after school this Friday! You can purchase a ticket for $12 tomorrow or Friday. See me or a member of the junior student council if you are interested!
Directions: Respond to the following questions in complete sentences. Underline your vocabulary words.
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1. Puns are phrases that have two levels of meaning. There are many puns contained in 2.2.187-237. Find three puns and copy them, citing the act, scene, and lines in parenthesis.
Then, explain the possible meanings for the puns you found.
2. 2.2.295-338 is rich in figurative language. What language tricks does Shakespeare use in this passage? Provide examples and explain their meanings.
3. Find examples of classical allusions in 2.2.445-574
4. It has been said that the allusion to Aeneas’ tale of Priam’s slaughter is a puzzle. Try to decode this puzzle. What message is Hamlet seemingly trying to convey?
5. Copy and cite images from the soliloquy that express Hamlet’s self-image. Discuss the significance of these images. How does he feel about himself, and why does he feel this way?
6. Why does Hamlet berate himself?
7. State, as clearly as possible just what Hamlet’s inner conflict in his soliloquy and whether he resolves it.
Reminder: Test on Act 2 will be Monday, January 26
Additional Reminders:
- Make sure to turn in any late work / edited work / make-up tests by this Friday!
- If you're looking for extra credit, scroll down the blog to the list of links. Click on Freerice to play a vocabulary or grammar game. Press print when you're done playing, write your name on the paper, and turn in for extra points! Try to make it to level 30!!!!
- The junior student council has organized a bowling trip for after school this Friday! You can purchase a ticket for $12 tomorrow or Friday. See me or a member of the junior student council if you are interested!
Friday, January 16, 2009
H.W. F 1/16/2009
Finish reading all of Act 2. Then complete all of the questions that follow.
2.2 Questions
1) Find a place or places in scenes one or two when Hamlet seems to have stopped playing with Polonius or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and talks straight from the heart.
The following questions correspond to Hamlet’s “O, what a rouge” soliloquy (2.2.576-634) :
a) Is it obvious to the audience or reader that Hamlet is alone onstage? What else could he mean when he begins, “Now I am alone”?
b) Why is the Prince calling himself a “rouge” and a “peasant slave”?
c) Hamlet compares himself to the player. What does this comparison reveal about Hamlet’s self-perception?
d) Throughout Hamlet, Shakespeare uses the word ear twenty-seven times. Have you noticed this? What symbolic possibilities do you think are contained in this fact?
e) Find lines or phrases that explain why Hamlet thinks himself a coward.
f) Do you think Hamlet is a coward, or is he acting cautiously by looking for external evidence to prove Claudius’s guilt?
Reminder Test on Acts II and III will be Monday, January 26!
2.2 Questions
1) Find a place or places in scenes one or two when Hamlet seems to have stopped playing with Polonius or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and talks straight from the heart.
The following questions correspond to Hamlet’s “O, what a rouge” soliloquy (2.2.576-634) :
a) Is it obvious to the audience or reader that Hamlet is alone onstage? What else could he mean when he begins, “Now I am alone”?
b) Why is the Prince calling himself a “rouge” and a “peasant slave”?
c) Hamlet compares himself to the player. What does this comparison reveal about Hamlet’s self-perception?
d) Throughout Hamlet, Shakespeare uses the word ear twenty-seven times. Have you noticed this? What symbolic possibilities do you think are contained in this fact?
e) Find lines or phrases that explain why Hamlet thinks himself a coward.
f) Do you think Hamlet is a coward, or is he acting cautiously by looking for external evidence to prove Claudius’s guilt?
Reminder Test on Acts II and III will be Monday, January 26!
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Period 8 H.W. H 1/15
Read Act 2, scene 2, lines 1-86. Then, complete the worksheet regarding Hamlet's alleged "strange" behavior towards Ophelia. The questions are listed below:
2.1 Questions
1) What is Hamlet up to in this scene?
2) Why is Hamlet treating Ophelia this way? Why her, of all people?
3) Does Hamlet love Ophelia? If not, how does he show this? If yes, what possible reasons could he have for putting on this show for her?
4) What about Ophelia—does she love Hamlet?
5) What is Ophelia’s reaction to Hamlet’s behavior. Try to pinpoint her feelings for him.
Reminders: Vocabulary packet for unit 5 is due tomorrow. Test on Acts 2 & 3 will be Monday, January 26.
2.1 Questions
1) What is Hamlet up to in this scene?
2) Why is Hamlet treating Ophelia this way? Why her, of all people?
3) Does Hamlet love Ophelia? If not, how does he show this? If yes, what possible reasons could he have for putting on this show for her?
4) What about Ophelia—does she love Hamlet?
5) What is Ophelia’s reaction to Hamlet’s behavior. Try to pinpoint her feelings for him.
Reminders: Vocabulary packet for unit 5 is due tomorrow. Test on Acts 2 & 3 will be Monday, January 26.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Period 7 H.W. W 1/14
Read 2.2.1-186 of Hamlet. Then, complete a journal entry for these lines. In your journal response, use and underline literary terms and vocabulary. This assignment must be handwritten on looseleaf. Scroll down the blog to find a copy of the format for Shakespeare journal entries. Use full heading, and label your act, scene, and lines.
* Also- add your final thoughts on the worksheet questions regarding the alleged behavior of Hamlet, as it is characterized through Ophelia's conversation with Polonius.
Reminder: Vocabulary packet for unit 5 is due tomorrow. Test on Acts 2 & 3 will be Monday, January 26.
* Also- add your final thoughts on the worksheet questions regarding the alleged behavior of Hamlet, as it is characterized through Ophelia's conversation with Polonius.
Reminder: Vocabulary packet for unit 5 is due tomorrow. Test on Acts 2 & 3 will be Monday, January 26.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
HW January 13
Write one original sentence about Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet for each vocabulary word. Provide context clues so that I know that you know what the words mean. Underline the words. You may do this assignment in your notebooks.
The words are generated from the Unit 5 packet, which was handed out today in class. If you ran off without getting a packet (period 8 / half of you), then you'll have to look up the words yourself, so that you know what they mean.
Unit 5 Vocabulary Words
accomplice
annihilate
arbitrary
brazen
catalyst
exodus
facilitate
incorrigible
latent
militant
morose
opaque
paramount
prattle
rebut
reprimand
servitude
slapdash
stagnant
succumb
The words are generated from the Unit 5 packet, which was handed out today in class. If you ran off without getting a packet (period 8 / half of you), then you'll have to look up the words yourself, so that you know what they mean.
Unit 5 Vocabulary Words
accomplice
annihilate
arbitrary
brazen
catalyst
exodus
facilitate
incorrigible
latent
militant
morose
opaque
paramount
prattle
rebut
reprimand
servitude
slapdash
stagnant
succumb
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Quote Identification Test: Study Guide
Quote Identification Test for Act I of Hamlet Tuesday, January 13. You will be presented with several quotes. Your task will be to:
a) identify the speaker
b) translate the quote into your own words
c) identify the context (discuss the situation/setting in detail)
d) explain the significance of the quote(importance to scene)
e) use vocabulary from unit 4 in your discussion (see below)
f) use literary terms in your response (see below)
To best prepare yourself for the test, practice tasks a-f for the following 20 excerpts. Be sure that you are able to use the vocabulary words from the current list in your sentences.
1. And still your fingers on your lips, I pray.
The time is out of joint. O cursed spite
That ever I was born to set it right!
2. And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
3. O most pernicious woman!
O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
My tables—meet it is I set it down
That one may smile and smile and be a villain.
At least I am sure it may be so in Denmark.
4. Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole,
With juice of cursed hebona in a vial,
And in the porches of my ears did pour […]
And with sudden vigor it doth posset
And curd, like eager droppings into milk,
The thin and wholesome blood. So did it mine,
And a most instant tetter barked about,
Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust
All my smooth body.
5. [I am] doomed for a certain term to walk the night
And for the day confined to fast in fires
Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
Are burnt and purged away. But I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison house,
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood […]
6. He waxes desperate with imagination.
7. What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord?
Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff
That beetles o’er his base into the sea,
And there assume some other horrible form
Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason
And draw you into madness? Think of it.
8. Thou com’st in such a questionable shape
That I will speak to thee. I’ll call thee “Hamlet”
9. You must not take for fire. From this time
Be something scanter of your maiden presence.
Set your entreatments at a higher rate
Than a command to parle. For Lord Hamlet,
Believe so much in him that he is young,
And with a larger tether may he walk
Than may be given you.
10. This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell. My blessing season this in thee.
11. Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned through his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
12. And keep you in the rear of your affection
Out of the shot and danger of desire […]
Be wary, then; best safety lies in fear.
Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.
13. I shall the effect of this good lesson keep
As watchman to my heart. But good my brother,
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own rede.
14. My father’s spirit- in arms! All is not well.
I doubt some foul play. Would the nigh were come!
Till then, sit still, my soul. Foul deeds will rise […]
15. (Let me not think on ‘t; frailty, thy name is woman!)
16. But you must know your father lost a father,
That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound
In filial obligation for some term
To do obsequious sorrow.
17. Good Hamlet, cast they knighted color off,
And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
Do not forever with thy veiled lids
Seek for thy noble father in the dust.
Thou know’st ‘tis common; all that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.
18. Yet now I must confess, that duty done,
My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France
And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon.
19. Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,
Have we (as ‘twere with a defeated joy,
With an auspicious and a dropping eye,
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,
In equal scale weighing delight and dole)
Taken to wife.
20. Before my God, I might not this believe
Without the sensible and true avouch
Of my own eyes.
Vocabulary Words / Unit 4
absconded
access
anarchy
arduous
auspicious
biased
dastardly
daunted
disentangling
embellish
fated
groundbreaking
halted
hoodwink
inanimate
incinerated
innovative
intrepid
larceny
notorious
perpetrate
pliant
pompous
posse
precipice
primitive
rectify
reprieve
reviled
Literary Terms
Characterization, Theme, Metaphor, Pun, Comic Relief, Setting
a) identify the speaker
b) translate the quote into your own words
c) identify the context (discuss the situation/setting in detail)
d) explain the significance of the quote(importance to scene)
e) use vocabulary from unit 4 in your discussion (see below)
f) use literary terms in your response (see below)
To best prepare yourself for the test, practice tasks a-f for the following 20 excerpts. Be sure that you are able to use the vocabulary words from the current list in your sentences.
1. And still your fingers on your lips, I pray.
The time is out of joint. O cursed spite
That ever I was born to set it right!
2. And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
3. O most pernicious woman!
O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
My tables—meet it is I set it down
That one may smile and smile and be a villain.
At least I am sure it may be so in Denmark.
4. Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole,
With juice of cursed hebona in a vial,
And in the porches of my ears did pour […]
And with sudden vigor it doth posset
And curd, like eager droppings into milk,
The thin and wholesome blood. So did it mine,
And a most instant tetter barked about,
Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust
All my smooth body.
5. [I am] doomed for a certain term to walk the night
And for the day confined to fast in fires
Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
Are burnt and purged away. But I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison house,
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood […]
6. He waxes desperate with imagination.
7. What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord?
Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff
That beetles o’er his base into the sea,
And there assume some other horrible form
Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason
And draw you into madness? Think of it.
8. Thou com’st in such a questionable shape
That I will speak to thee. I’ll call thee “Hamlet”
9. You must not take for fire. From this time
Be something scanter of your maiden presence.
Set your entreatments at a higher rate
Than a command to parle. For Lord Hamlet,
Believe so much in him that he is young,
And with a larger tether may he walk
Than may be given you.
10. This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell. My blessing season this in thee.
11. Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned through his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
12. And keep you in the rear of your affection
Out of the shot and danger of desire […]
Be wary, then; best safety lies in fear.
Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.
13. I shall the effect of this good lesson keep
As watchman to my heart. But good my brother,
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own rede.
14. My father’s spirit- in arms! All is not well.
I doubt some foul play. Would the nigh were come!
Till then, sit still, my soul. Foul deeds will rise […]
15. (Let me not think on ‘t; frailty, thy name is woman!)
16. But you must know your father lost a father,
That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound
In filial obligation for some term
To do obsequious sorrow.
17. Good Hamlet, cast they knighted color off,
And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
Do not forever with thy veiled lids
Seek for thy noble father in the dust.
Thou know’st ‘tis common; all that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.
18. Yet now I must confess, that duty done,
My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France
And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon.
19. Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,
Have we (as ‘twere with a defeated joy,
With an auspicious and a dropping eye,
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,
In equal scale weighing delight and dole)
Taken to wife.
20. Before my God, I might not this believe
Without the sensible and true avouch
Of my own eyes.
Vocabulary Words / Unit 4
absconded
access
anarchy
arduous
auspicious
biased
dastardly
daunted
disentangling
embellish
fated
groundbreaking
halted
hoodwink
inanimate
incinerated
innovative
intrepid
larceny
notorious
perpetrate
pliant
pompous
posse
precipice
primitive
rectify
reprieve
reviled
Literary Terms
Characterization, Theme, Metaphor, Pun, Comic Relief, Setting
Homework: Friday, January 9, 2008
Write a one page paper in which you discuss the following theme in Hamlet, act I: The Impossibility of Certainty.
You will be scored based on:
- Meaning / Content
- Evidence
- Use of vocabulary
* On looseleaf, handwritten
Reminder: Test on Act I Tuesday. See Review on Blog.
You will be scored based on:
- Meaning / Content
- Evidence
- Use of vocabulary
* On looseleaf, handwritten
Reminder: Test on Act I Tuesday. See Review on Blog.
Homework: Thursday, January 8, 2009
Write a one page paper in which you analyze Shakespeare's characterization of Polonius. Discuss Polonius in terms of:
a) personality
b) values and beliefs
c) background history
d) motive
Your sccore will be based on:
- Content / Meaning
- Textual Evidence
- Use of Vocabulary
* On looseleaf, handwritten
a) personality
b) values and beliefs
c) background history
d) motive
Your sccore will be based on:
- Content / Meaning
- Textual Evidence
- Use of Vocabulary
* On looseleaf, handwritten
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Extra Credit: Due Monday, January 12
Due Monday, January 12
Loose Leaf, Handwritten
Locate two examples of figurative language in Act I of Hamlet, and for each:
a) Quote the example
b) Cite the Act/Line/Scene
c) Identify the speaker
d) Identify the character(s) being spoken to
e) Identify the literary term/technique/device used (ex: pun, irony, simile, metaphor, ect.)
f) Discuss what the quote means in literal terms, and explain your conclusions
g) Explain why it is important to understand this literary technique in order to better understand the story
This assignment must be completed on loose leaf, in your neatest handwriting. Typed responses will not receive credit. NO EXCEPTIONS. You will be scored on the thoroughness of your response and your use of vocabulary. For letters (f) and (g), you will also be scored on grammar and sentence-structure.
Reminder Quote Identification Test for Act I of Hamlet Tuesday, January 13. You will be presented with several quotes. Your task will be to:
a) identify the speaker
b) translate the quote into your own words
c) identify the context (discuss the situation in detail)
d) explain the significance of the quote(importance to scene)
* You will be expected to use new vocabulary and sentence
structures.
Loose Leaf, Handwritten
Locate two examples of figurative language in Act I of Hamlet, and for each:
a) Quote the example
b) Cite the Act/Line/Scene
c) Identify the speaker
d) Identify the character(s) being spoken to
e) Identify the literary term/technique/device used (ex: pun, irony, simile, metaphor, ect.)
f) Discuss what the quote means in literal terms, and explain your conclusions
g) Explain why it is important to understand this literary technique in order to better understand the story
This assignment must be completed on loose leaf, in your neatest handwriting. Typed responses will not receive credit. NO EXCEPTIONS. You will be scored on the thoroughness of your response and your use of vocabulary. For letters (f) and (g), you will also be scored on grammar and sentence-structure.
Reminder Quote Identification Test for Act I of Hamlet Tuesday, January 13. You will be presented with several quotes. Your task will be to:
a) identify the speaker
b) translate the quote into your own words
c) identify the context (discuss the situation in detail)
d) explain the significance of the quote(importance to scene)
* You will be expected to use new vocabulary and sentence
structures.
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