YOU GIVE ME FEVER: Hamlet Fever Chart
Your task: Extend your understanding of one major character, and work out your deep
reading muscles.
What’s a “fever chart”?
A fever chart is a graphical representation showing change of a variable over time.
Fever charts are used for data that changes continuously, like stock prices. They allow
for a clear visual representation of a change in one variable over a set amount of
time.
Directions:

Choose one major character and chart one changing and evolving feature
throughout the play, Acts I-V.

Create your own fever chart by using the "Y-AXIS" as what you’re measuring
(sanity/insanity; capacity for love; courage and cowardice; etc) and the "X-AXIS”
for direct quotes that demonstrate change.
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A careful look at your fever chart will allow you to draw conclusions.
Option:
You may choose to analyze several different characters with several lines charting
the same feature.
Try to invent a fresh approach to the assignment!
Have fun. 
RUBRIC
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Fever chart tracks
one/several
characters and a
changing variable.
“Y AXIS” clearly
displays what you’re
charting – a feature of
a character that
changes throughout
the play.
“X AXIS” clearly
displays quotes from
the text that
demonstrate change.
Act and scene
numbers are
accurately cited.
Chart accounts for all
five acts of the play.
Chart shows clear
evidence of
intellectual time and
effort.
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Achieved (4-5)