that means more homework tonight.
Please create responses to the passages which you have chosen for your Hamlet essay on identity. Tomorrow during class you will have time to colour code the points and create a scintillating thesis which must be approved before you begin the essay.
Essays and quotation logs are due Monday. Be sure to cite properly. Ask me how if you are unsure.
Writing 12 students: We need readers, periods 1 and 2, April 23 to celebrate Shakespeare's birthday.
AP Lit students: We also would love to hear your Hamlet recitations at this event. You must audition in order to recite. See Erika, Spencer, Christina or Adam for details. We'd love to have you all perform or read your works next Tuesday as the grade 10s and 11s look to you for inspiration (and it's always good to demonstrate how wonderful AP Lit and Writing 12 can be). Thanks for supporting the English department.
Thursday's Hamlet Test:
Two sections / Two 40 minute essays
Section 1: You'll be asked to annotate a passage from Hamlet and respond to a question. (This section imitates the prose section on the AP exam).
Section 2: Free response essay (albeit not so free this time) I will give you a question and you must use the play, Hamlet, as the text to answer the question. It may be one of the questions from the list you have so look there.
We have three weeks to prepare for the exam so we'll do multiple choice questions during our next three Wednesdays and we'll begin our study of Death of a Salesman Friday. I'll get you to sign out Camus' The Outsider at the same time so you'll have both.
You may keep the Hamlet texts until you submit your essay.
Parent-teacher interviews are next Thurs, April 25 but I am unable to
attend. If you know your parents would like to meet, please have them
email me to set up an alternate time. I am so sorry for the
inconvenience.
