Also, if you have not yet signed up for the student-teacher conferences, you need to do so by Thursday.
Excellent work today!! We reviewed Act 3, Sc 1 with the quiz, practiced the vicious multiple choice (which we are finding easier, yay!), and we predicted what needed to happen in the bedroom scene in order to initiate Hamlet's restoration to order.
We watched the film version of the bedroom scene and each of you has taken a passage to present to the class on Thursday.
Look for
- connections to previous scenes,
- unravelling of the conflict,
- indirect references to the Great Chain of Being,
- changes in diction,
- Hamlet's rash murder of Polonius,
- the influence of the ghost
- Literary techniques which add depth to the passage
- Syntax
We're now looking simulatenously at attitudes toward action and attitudes toward thought as Hamlet grapples with his father's murder and his commitment to vengeance.
Read Act 4 and notice all the changes in plot. What is unravelling as a result of the climax--what is happening?
What are the ramifications of Polonius' death and Hamlet's trip to England?
Soliloquy 7, the final soliloquy is in Act 4, why? We'll look at it closely for homework, Thursday night.
