HW Due Week of March 2

Due Monday: Draft #2 / Controlling Idea Essay (Revenge / Shakespeare / Bacon)

Due Wednesday Thursday Blocks: A Separate Peace, John Knowles (read) / Vocabulary Packet
* Note: Bring in your copy of A Separate Peace for the class assignment we will be working on.

Reminder: Rally March 5

HW Wednesday/Thursday Block 2/25-2/26

SAT practice packet: Unit 6
(Actively read and complete multiple choice questions)

M 2/23/09 Homework

We are currently writing a controlling idea essay (Regents task). For this essay, you will develop a controlling idea (thesis)about revenge to connect both Shakespeare's Hamlet and Francis Bacon's "About Revenge." For tonight's homework, you must complete the one- page brainstorm you started in class(freewrite/venn diagram/list/looseleaf notes,charts, ect.) and write your thesis statement.

Be prepared to write for the entire 42 minute period tomorrow. You will be creating your outline and then starting your essay (draft 1).

To be collected during this week's block period:
1) Brainstorm work
2) Outline
3) Draft (treat your rough draft as though it were your final draft)
4) Rubric (handed out in class today)

Follow your rubric guidelines for maximum points!!!

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Read Act IV, scenes vi and vii. Complete a double-entry journal for each scene.
Use and underline/highlight literary terms. This assignment should be completed in your notebook.




Reminders:
- March 5 Rally- spread the word to your parents and your friends!
- Join the creative writer's blog (see link on side of blog) by sending me an email!
- Bollywood Banquet will be at the end of March. Let me know if you would like to perform or teach groups of freshman the dance moves you learned last year.
- Become a peer tutor, or work with one.
- Local Volunteers meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) after school in Mr. Carson's room- bring contact information for work you are interested in doing.
- Essay contest information posted on classroom door
- Junior Council members are selling candy grams and roses for Valentine's Day during lunch!

HW: Monday, February 9, 2009

Read Act IV, scenes IV and V.

Complete a double-entry journal for each scene (one quote per scene).

Underline literary terms/techniques. Complete this assignment in your notebook.

HW Friday, February 6, 2009

Read Act IV, scenes i-iii of Hamlet.

Complete a double-entry journal for each scene. In other words, choose one passage (5-10 lines each) per scene to analyze.

Underline or highlight your literary terms and techniques.

This assigment must be completed in your notebook.

H.W. February 4/5 (Block Wed/Thurs Classes)

Reread any part of Act III that you found confusing at first. Then, complete a double-entry journal for two quotes in the act. Underline or highlight literary terms/techniques. This assignment should be completed in your notebook.


Book Clubbers: Ms. Morey and I are checking the times for the movie, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" for tomorrow afternoon. Bring cash if you can come!!!! We're hoping to get a student rate, but I would suggest bringing $15 to be safe!!

HW Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Complete all of the questions for Act III. Be specific, explain when necessary, and write directly on the packet if you have it:

Hamlet Act III Questions

3.1.64-94
1. Discuss the complexities of Hamlet’s struggle with suicide.


3.1.99-175
2. Support or refute one of the following statements:
a. Hamlet knows from the beginning of the scene that Polonius and Claudius are watching him
b. Hamlet does not know until later in the scene that he is being watched.
c. Hamlet never knows that he is being watched.


3. What is Hamlet’s objective in this scene?

4. What specific gestures, inflections, movements, or pauses could an actor use to show Hamlet’s objective?

5. How does this objective affect the subtext?

6. Explain how the characters in this play are complex humans.

7. Make predictions about how these characters will affect one another throughout the play. Be specific.

3.2.96-317

8. What rude remarks does Hamlet say to Ophelia? How rude are they? Be specific.

9. How does Hamlet insult other characters? Be specific.

10. At this point in the play, what is driving Hamlet? Explain.

11. How much of a risk is Hamlet taking with the play experiment? Explain.

12. What are the results of Hamlet’s play experiment? Who verifies these results?

13. What important information does Hamlet have in his grasp at the end of the scene?

14. To whom can Hamlet report this new information? Explain.

3.2.96-317 (continued)

15. Is there anybody who could straighten out the situation? Explain.

16. What are Hamlet’s options?Explain.

17. Does the “mousetrap” scene necessarily prove the Ghost is honest? What are the other possibilities?

18. Summarize the Player King’s speech.

19. What might Hamlet hope to accomplish by the Player King’s and Player
Queen’s speeches?

20. Earlier Hamlet asked the Player to “study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines” that he would write and insert in the play. What possible evidence of Hamlet’s inserted lines is there in the “mousetrap” scene?

3.3.40-101

21. What happens to Claudius in 3.3.30-76 when he tries to pray? Explain the significance.

22. Hamlet finds the moment to kill Claudius at 3.3.77-101. Why doesn’t he do it? Explain.