Personification (giving human traits to nonhuman things
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• But look, the morn in russet mantle clad
• Walks o’er the dew of yon high eastward hill.
• The morning is rising over the eastern side of
the hill.
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conversations
• With a partner read the dialogue.
• Afterwards circle all the words you don’t know
• http://www.shakespeareswords.com/Glossary
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• 5th hr: which words did you look up?
• 6th hr Which words did YOU look up?
• 7th hr: lets do it.
vocabulary
• Read word definition and then
• Gesture and sound to class.
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Usurp
Moiety
Portentous
Harbinger
Partisan
Auspicious
Filial
Obsequious
Retrograde
Canonize
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Sovereignty
Adulterate
Enmity
Pernicious
Truant
Tenable
Jocund
Disclosure
Countenance
Besmirch
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Prodigal
Libertine
Unfledged
Censure
Husbandry
Parley
Beguile
• Vocac list for Act 1
• http://www.vocabulary.com/lists/251234 view=notes
Quotes Day 2
• Count off to 7
• 8 minutes to prepare dramatic reading of your
• Quote. Try to memorize.
– Break it up: individual lines, choral voice
– Physicalize the line is some way that highlights the
sound/meaning of quote
– : rewrite in modern English what your quote
means, share with class at end.
Stand in circle.
• Read script
• Call out numbers of quotes for group to come
into center and perform.
• Line up In order.
Agenda
• Quotes
• Reading log handout
• Begin 1.1
Quotes from yesterday #1
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Stay, illusion!
If there be any good thing to be done
That may to thee do ease and grace to me,
Speak to me.
• Stay ghost
• If there is something good to be done that will
comfort you, then tell me.
Group 2
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, (130)
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!
I wish I could disappear.
Or that God did not forbid suicide
Group 3
• Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan
oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing
dulls the edge of husbandry.”
• Don’t borrow or lend money, for loans often
lead to losing friends. Borrowing money
makes you less productive.
Group 4
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This above all — to thine ownself be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. (78)
The most important thing is this: be true to
yourself. If you are, then like night follows day,
you will true to others.
Group 5
• Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief.
Your noble son is mad.
To be brief is to be smart.
I will be brief:
Your son is crazy
Group 6
• What a piece of work is a man! How noble in
reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in
moving, how express and admirable! (286)
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• Man is noble in reason, intellect and form. His
gracel and expression are admirable
Group 7
1 To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?
• The question is: it it better to be dead or alive? Is it nobler to
put up with suffering that luck throw your way or to put and
end to all troubles for ever.
Lines 1-80
1. Round Robin.
– Stop at each period, question mark, and
exclamation mark
Circle words that you don’t know
2. Words? Look up
3. reread. Roles assigned. Put a ? Where
something doesn’t make sense
Put a check where something seems significant.
questions
1. Who are these people and where are they and
what are they doing?
2. What info does Shakespeare provide about
physical setting?
3. What does setting suggest about characters’
behavior?
4. What does “Who’s there?” imply about Barnardo
and the situation?
5.Does anything in conversation betrween Barnardo
and Francisco reinforce these implications?
questions
• 6. Shakespeare wrote into the body of the play
many signals and directions. What do the
commands and questions in lines 1-20 suggest
about staging the scene?
• 7. What inferences can be drawn about
Horatio’s character and his relationship to the
guards?
agenda
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Stamp logs
Pass out No Fear. Read scene
Act out 1.1
Watch two versionsHOmework
Read 1.2 do log #2
The Ghost
• What doe ghost do once it is on stage?
• How does his appearance affect the others?
The mood (atmosphere)
• What is the mood of this scene? What should
the set look like? Where would you put
entrances and exits?
• Props?
Acting the scene
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Volunteers to put scene on its feet.
The rest of the class act as directors
How should they enter? Move? Stand, sit?
What actions are suggested by the lines?
Warm up journal (put after 1.1 if room
or 1.2
• Why does Shakespeare begin play with a
ghost?
• How does create foreboding and suspense?
• Use the word “foreshadowing or
Foreshadows” in your response.
– Foreshadow:to hint at future events
1.2 Family conflict
"A little more than kin, and less than kind."
Hamlet
O. that this too too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew,
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon ‘gainst Self-slaughter!- Hamlet
1 Divide students into groups of 6 (count off folks)
2 Read through scene together.
3 Circle words you don’t know
4 Translate difficult passages…put your paraphrase in the
margin
5 Make Cuts to portions of long speech as long as the essence
of the scene remains. Edited script should be 5-6 minutes
5 AFTER 15 MINUTES
6Decide Where to enter, exit, sit, stand.
long.Put notes on side of script
7 RUN THOUGH ON MONDAY. Review words, lines, add to
your journal if you have better understanding of 1.2 now.
Agenda
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Discuss similarities/differences
Look at speech (10 minutes)
Watch video (10 min)
Read the rest of 1.2
Speech
• Identify any metaphors
– Direct comparison (unweeded garden)
– Time is a turtle
• Similes
– Indirect comparison
– Time is like a turtle
– Translate into plain English
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!
I wish I could disappear – die
But god has made it a sin to commit suicide
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, (135)
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!
How pointless life seems to me.
It is filled with weeds. I can’t believe it has come to this
But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: (140)
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!
My father is only two months dead, not even.
He was an excellent King. He was like the sun god and Claudius is
like a satyr. My father would not allow the wind to blow too hard
on her face.
Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, (145)
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! –
Why do I have to remember? She hanged on him. And the more
she was with him the more she loved him.
And yet…within a month. Oh I can think of it. You are weak,
woman
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she follow'd my poor father's body, (150)
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,
Just a little after a month, before she had even broken
in the shoes she wore to his funeral, crying, ….
Even a beast would have mourned long.. And now she
has married my uncle.
My father's brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules: within a month: (155)
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
(before the tears have dried)
She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not nor it cannot come to good: (160)
But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue.
video
• How does this clairfy the scene and family
tensions?
What is Hamlet’s Problem?
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What excuse does Claudius give for marrying
Gertrude so soon after King Hamlet’s death?
2. "A little more than kin, and less than kind.” (3)
Hamlet
Why does Hamlet say this? What does it mean?
3. How did Hamlet respond to his mother? (p 3)
4. How does Claudius act toward Hamlet?
5. How did Hamlet Respond to Claudius?
Read 1.2 to the end
1.3
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Second family dynamics
Polonius: councillor to King Claudius
Laertes is his son
Ophelia is his daughter
Literary Terms
• Foil: a character who contrasts with the main
character in order to highlight the differences.
• Laertes is a foil to Hamlet (how are they
different?)
Lit Term: Aphorism
• a pithy observation that contains a general
truth, such as, “if it ain't broke, don't fix it.”
Agenda
• Finish 1.3
Laertes to Ophelia
Polonius to Laertes
Polonius to Ophelia
Homework:
Finish act 1 and do your study guide instead of
journals. Answer the questions in your journal
Write down one piece of advice
• Translate it into your own language
• Polonius: full of fatherly advice and common
aphorisms. (cliches)
• “To thine self be true,” (but he instructs
Ophelia otherwise.)
• Polonius plays the fool character in Hamlet
Family relationships Answer one
• What does each character want?
• How do they treat each other?
• How is this family similar to or different from
Hamlet’s family?
• Why do Ophelia’s brother and father advise
her thus? Why don’t they want her to hang
with Hamlet?
1.5
• The time is out of joint. O cursed spite, / That
ever I was born to set it right."
• Hamlet admits that he does not want to take
revenge at all.