September 9, 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.
Big Idea: Character
Starter:
Free Write Friday
1/2 Page. Double-Spaced.
Vocabulary:
Term: Protagonist
Part of Speech: Noun
Dictionary Definition: a : the principal character in a literary work (as a drama or story)
b : a leading actor, character, or participant in a literary work or real event
Your Definition:
Activity: Describe the protagonist of Hamlet.
Term: Antagonist
Part of Speech: Noun
Dictionary Definition: one that contends with or opposes another
Your Definition:
Activity: Describe the antagonist of Hamlet.
Part of Speech: Noun
Dictionary Definition: a : the principal character in a literary work (as a drama or story)
b : a leading actor, character, or participant in a literary work or real event
Your Definition:
Activity: Describe the protagonist of Hamlet.
Term: Antagonist
Part of Speech: Noun
Dictionary Definition: one that contends with or opposes another
Your Definition:
Activity: Describe the antagonist of Hamlet.
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. 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.
2. Finish BBC Hamlet Production
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.
3. Act One Scenes Three- Five
As a class, we will read through the remaining part of Act One.
Continue to observe Hamlet's thoughts, behaviors, statements, etc.
Characters
Laertes
Ophelia
Polonius
Hamlet
Horatio
Marcellus
Ghost
Discussion Questions
What is the relationship between Ophelia and Hamlet?
Analyze the advice Laertes and Polonius give.
What are they really concerned about?
Interpret what the ghost tells Hamlet. Support whether or not the ghost has good intentions.
At the end of Act One, determine if you believe the ghost is real or make believe.
4. TPEQEA
Respond to the prompt below in a TPEQEA paragraph.
Your QUOTE should be from the play!
TOPIC
Analyze the character of a person from Act One of Hamlet.
Your choice.
Then, select two adjectives that describe that person's character.
Think back to our big idea.
Make sure to reflect on their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Closure:
Pick one line from the play that best describes Hamlet.
Explain your selection.
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