September 8, 2016
E.Q: Characterize Hamlet using indirect characterization.
Analyze Hamlet's soliloquy to create deeper understanding of his character.
Obj: I can characterize Hamlet using indirect characterization.
I can analyze Hamlet's soliloquy to create deeper understanding of his character.
Starter:
Think back to yesterday's reading.
Create ONE question based on the first two scenes of Hamlet.
Write your question on an index card.
We will do quiz. quiz. trade. to receive answers to our questions.
Vocabulary:
Lit Term: Soliloquy
Part of Speech: Noun
Dictionary Definition: an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play
Your Definition:
Activity: Analyze the soliloquy in Act One, Scene Two.
Use Hamlet Vocab for this element.
You should have 30 words by the end of the unit.
For each activity box use the word in a sentence.
It will go for a grade at the end of the unit.
Activity:
1. STEAL chart Review
What is your initial impression of Hamlet?
We will review the chart as a class.
2. Hamlet Analysis
With a partner, translate the lines into a language that is understandable to you.
You may use any sort of style that is suitable for you and your partner.
When complete, think about the overall mental state of Hamlet.
Answer: What does this soliloquy reveal about his mental state?
Hamlet's Soliloquy
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two:
So excellent a king; that was, to this,
Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!
Must I remember? why, she would hang on him,
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on: and yet, within a month--
Let me not think on't--Frailty, thy name is woman!--
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she follow'd my poor father's body,
Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she--
O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,
Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle,
My father's brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules: within a month:
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not nor it cannot come to good:
But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue.
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two:
So excellent a king; that was, to this,
Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!
Must I remember? why, she would hang on him,
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on: and yet, within a month--
Let me not think on't--Frailty, thy name is woman!--
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she follow'd my poor father's body,
Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she--
O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,
Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle,
My father's brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules: within a month:
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not nor it cannot come to good:
But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue.
As a class, we will watch the scenes we read yesterday.
Pay close attention to the way Hamlet is characterized in the movie compared to the text.
Jot down notes about what is similar and different to what you imagined.
We will discuss this as a class.
Closure:
Explain how Hamlet character is similar and different between the print and BBC production.
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