BELL RINGER
 Grab student folders
 Hand-in paper if you have not already in the order that is provided for
you on the board
• Any papers handed in after today will receive a 20% reduction
 Hand in HERO’s JOURNEY WORKSHEET
 We will TRY for this week to sit wherever you would like. If this
DOES NOT work out, we will go back to a pre-arranged seating chart
AGENDA FOR TODAY
 Turn in papers
 Hand back Socratic Seminar grades and Final Test grades
• Both are in Quarter 1 grades
 Reflection about The Kite Runner unit
 Introduction into Shakespeare
LEARNING TARGETS AND
EXPECTATIONS
Expectations
Learning Targets
 I can reflect on Quarter 1 to
 I will keep my cell phone put
improve as a student in Quarter 2
away
 I can provide Miss Spohn with
 I will reflect to the best of my
feedback concerning The Kite
ability to improve myself and help
Runner
Miss Spohn learn what things
 I can understand the
could have been done differently
background of William
 I will remain quiet while Miss
Shakespeare
Spohn is talking
REFLECTION QUESTIONS
Please take out a piece of paper and put
your name at the top
Please respond to the following questions
with a MINIMUM of 2 sentences
REFLECTION QUESTIONS
Did you do the quote logs? If so, did they help
you in writing your final paper? If not, why did you
not do them?
Did the Socratic Seminar enhance your learning
experience? Why or why not?
REFLECTION QUESTIONS
 What would you do differently to enhance your learning
experience?
 What activities did you like to do? Why?
 What activities could have been done differently? How?
 Any additional activities you would have liked to do?
REFLECTION QUESTIONS
 How have you grown as a learner in Quarter 1 in World Literature
class?
 What did you learn in Quarter 1?
 How will you continue to grow as a learner in Quarter 2? Set two
specific goals for Quarter 2
DATA
 My current grade is:
 My desired grade is:
 I complete an average of ____% of the homework
 I spend and average of ____ minutes reading/studying/doing
homework.
 I am putting maximum effort into this class – Yes/No
CAN YOU NAME THIS
MOVIE?
 A king is killed by his evil, power-hungry brother who is interested
in marrying the queen. The king’s son leaves the kingdom and spends
some time with two fast-talking friends. After some time away from
the kingdom, the prince is visited by a ghostly image of his father, the
king, which motivates him to return to the kingdom to bring the truth
of his father’s murder to light and avenge his father’s death.
Youtube clip
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William Shakespeare was born in April of 1564 and he
died in April of 1616
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Born in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK
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Was married in 1582 to Anne Hathaway
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Their children: daughter Susanna; and the twins, a boy
and girl, Judith and Hamnet
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Almost 400 years after Shakespeare's death:
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there are 15 million pages referring to him on Google
there are 132 million for God
2.7 million for Elvis Presley
14.7 million for George W. Bush
A performance of Macbeth begins somewhere in the world every 4
hours
 Suicide occurs an unlucky thirteen times in Shakespeare's plays.
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FUN FACTS CONTINUED
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Shakespeare put a curse on anyone daring to move his body from
his final resting place. His epitaph was:
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 Show youtube clips
 Huffington post article
 Movies taken from Shakespeare
Hamlet
Published in 1604
THE TRAGEDY OF
HAMLET, PRINCE OF
DENMARK
JUST IMAGINE…
Your father has just died
Your mother marries your uncle
You’re visited by the ghost of your dead
father who tells you he was murdered by your
new dad
You have a girlfriend who is mentally
unstable
You have an unhealthy infatuation with your
own mother
Why do you think that Shakespeare waited until after his death to
publish his plays?
TALK IN YOUR SMALL
GROUPS
SETTING
 Late medieval period in Denmark
 Hamlet feels the pressure to avenge his father’s death
• His father’s ghost visits him and reveals that Hamlet’s uncle Claudius
has murdered him in order to become king
• Hamlet struggles with trusting the ghost
ON A SCALE OF 1 (LOW) TO
5 (HIGH), HOW MUCH DO
YOU AGREE…
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
All crimes should be punished along the lines
of “an eye for an eye.”
If someone in your family has been wronged,
it is your duty to get vengeance.
It is acceptable for a widow to marry the
deceased’s brother or sister.
It is hypocritical to lie and/or to pretend to be
someone else in order to discover the truth.
There are certain jobs and roles that only men
or women should have.
ON A SCALE OF 1 (LOW) TO
5 (HIGH), HOW MUCH DO
YOU AGREE…
6) Power corrupts the people who have it.
7) A person’s immoral (wrong) choices will
come back to haunt him / her.
8) Ghosts or supernatural elements exist in the
world.
9) Having a clear goal, and ambition to meet it,
is honorable.
10) Defending your family is more important
than sticking to your principles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjHXIWLTsOk
YOU TUBE CLIP OF MOVIE
TRAILER
THIS IS THE MOVIE WE
WILL BE WATCHING
BASED OFF THE LION
KING TRY TO FIGURE OUT
CHARACTER ROLES* WRITE
THIS IN YOUR NOTEBOOK
YOU CAN WORK WITH A PARTNER
Ex: Hamlet- Simba- Prince of kingdom
Cladius- ScarGertrude- Sarabi –
Ghost (Hamlet I)- Mufasa-
KEEP GOING!
Ophelia – NalaLaertes- HyenaHoratio- RafikiTimon and Pumba- Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern-
GOT IT?
 Hamlet – Prince of Denmark whose father dies before the
play begins
 Claudius – Hamlet’s uncle who marries Hamlet’s mother
 Gertrude – Hamlet’s mother
 Ghost – Hamlet’s father
 Ophelia – Hamlet’s girlfriend
Laertes – Ophelia’s brother
Polonius – Ophelia’s father
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern – friends of
Hamlet’s
Horatio – friend of Hamlet’s
Fortinbras – Prince of Norway
LANGUAGE
TYPICAL SHAKESPEAREAN
PLOTLINE
 All of Shakespeare’s plays follow this fairly rigid format.
 Knowing this formula helps readers and viewers anticipate
 various elements concerning forthcoming plot events
Act III
Act II
Act IV
Act I
Act V
DRAMA LITERARY TERMS*
Aside: A speech directed to the audience while other
character are on stage that other characters cannot hear.
Flat Character: a minor character who does not go through
any change or growth.
Indirect Characterization: The audience learns about a
character through actions, speech, or others.
DRAMA LITERARY TERMS*
Round Character (dynamic character): a
major character who is confronted with a conflict
and is changed by it.
Soliloquy: The innermost thoughts of a character
presented to the audience with the character alone
(solo) on stage.
TRAGEDY DEFINED:*
an event resulting in great loss and
misfortune
a play in which the leading character
suffers intense conflicts and a wretched fate,
often because of some weakness
COMMON ELEMENTS*
A conflict is a clashing of opposing forces.
• External conflicts include man vs. man,
nature, fate, or society.
• An internal conflict, man vs. himself, results
when a character has difficulty determining
what to do or how to feel in a certain
situation.
Revenge is added for suspense.
Supernatural incidents are occurrences that go
beyond nature.
COMMON ELEMENTS CONT.
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A chance happening is an incident that
occurs by chance; however, it has a
major impact on the action of the
play.
Comic relief is used to lighten the
mood of a tragedy.
TRAGIC HERO DEFINED *
A tragic hero is a character that is usually born
into nobility. He has a personality defect, a tragic
flaw, which causes him to make errors in judgment.
These errors lead to his downfall or destruction.
Because he has an important position in society, his
death has a major impact on his society.
EXAMPLES OF TRAGIC
HERO
Hamlet
Romeo
Achilles
TRAGIC FLAW
A flaw in the character of the protagonist of a
tragedy that brings the protagonist to ruin or
sorrow.
Also known as the “Achilles heel”
Sense of courage, ultimate bravery, honor, need
for revenge/vengeance, naiveté, pride
YOU WILL KEEP A
CHARACTER CHART IN
YOUR NOTEBOOK
 Trace the character’s words throughout each act and gather two
quotes per act that best represent who they are, what they think, and/or
what they do. Write the emotion that best summarizes the quote you
chose. You need a total of 10 quotes (two per act) even if your character
is not in all five acts. You will then take more quotes from the Acts that
your character is in. You need 10 total. This will set you up for success
when you have to chart this for your Fever Chart Assessment.
I HAVE ASSIGNED YOU
CHARACTERS TO TRACK
 Hamlet
 Ophelia
 Cladius
 Laertes
 Horatio
THE CHART WILL LOOK
LIKE THIS
Act 1
1.Emotion
Quote to support emotion
2. Emotion
Quote to support emotion
Act 2
1. Emotion
Quote to support emotion
Your character name
RANGE OF EMOTIONS
 As we chart our characters in our notebooks, we need to think
about the different ranges of emotions. This chart will get us ready
for our assessment, the Fever Chart. Our fever chart will have 7
different emotions on it and so we want to think of some emotions to
on both ends of the thermometer and what goes in the middle.
FOR EXAMPLE
Confident-Insecure
Optimistic-pessimistic
Love-Hate
Ecstatic/Euphoric-
Sane-Insane
Livid/Furious
Energetic- exhausted
IN GROUPS OF 2
 Pick one of the previous examples or make one of your own and
provide a thermometer of emotions. You will find 5 words to include
within the two opposite ends of the thermometer. There will be 7
words total in your range.
 Write these down on a sheet of paper to turn in at the end of the
hour.
PARAPHRASE *
Put it in your own words!
Steps
•
•
•
•
Reword
Rearrange
Realize
Recheck
STEPS TO PARAPHRASING*
 Reword - replace words and phrases with synonyms
whenever you can.
 Rearrange - rearrange words within sentences to make new
sentences. You can even rearrange the ideas presented within
the paragraph.
 Realize that some words and phrases cannot be changed names, dates, titles etc. cannot be replaced, but you can present
them differently in your paraphrase.
 Recheck - make sure that your paraphrase conveys the
same meaning as the original text.
LET’S TRY ONE TOGETHER
When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon my self and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
STEP ONE
 Read the first 11 lines of Hamlet
 Highlight the words that do not make sense to you
 After you are done reading, we will discuss as a class what words
we can replace them with
STEP TWO
 Half of the class will be Bernado and the other half Fransisco
 Do a choral performance of the first 11 lines of the scene
STEP 3
 Let’s as a class discuss:
 What is going on in this scene? What are the characters doing?
 Who are these people?
 Where are these people?
 What time of the day is it? Are they inside or outside?
 Does someone leave at the end of the scene?
 What emotions are presented in this scene? Happy? Sad? Suspenseful?
STEP 4
 Find a person to be your partner
 Then find 2 other partner groups to create a group of 6
 Each group of 2 will grab a genre from my hand, write it on their sheet, and work for
5 minutes to create a performance and give it to their small group of 6 integrating their
genre. DO NOT TELL YOUR GROUP WHICH GENRE! THEY HAVE TO GUESS!
 Practice away from your group
 For example:
• Opera
• Miss Spohn will present this scene opera style
 After each performance, guess which genre the group was trying
to portray! Wait until the performance is done! Write it down on your
GUESS sheet!
STEP 5
 As a class, let’s discuss:
• Were there styles in your group that were similar?
• Could the scene work in all these different styles?
• What choices did you make to portray your style?
• Vocally? Physically? Attitude?
PERFORMANCE
REQUIREMENT
 Each student is expected to participate in at least one act.
 To make the experience enjoyable, please try to read with emotion.
 If you do not enjoy reading out loud, you may select a small part.
You may also check a book out ahead of time and practice.
 Yes, there is extra credit available. You may sign up for more than
one part after all parts are taken.
 More extra credit?
 You are welcome to bring props or costumes to share.
IF YOU ARE GONE
 Attendance is CRUCIAL for this unit. You will have to do very
little work at home if you come to class everyday!
 If you are gone for whatever reason, you can come to my room
during your open hour to read and listen to a voice recording. OR you
can go to the ERC and check out a book (you have to return it once
you are done) to listen to it at home.
 Missing=reading independently
READING ACT 1
 Act 1 – Scene 1
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› Laertes
› Ophelia
› Polonius
Bernardo
Francisco
Horatio
Marcellus
 Act 1 – Scene 2
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•
King (Claudius)
Queen (Gertrude)
Cornelius/Voltemand
Laertes
Polonius
Hamlet
Horatio
Marcellus
Act 1 – Scene 3
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Act 1 Scene 4
› Hamlet
› Horatio
› Marcellus
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Act 1 Scene 5
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›
›
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Hamlet
Ghost
Horatio
Marcellus