HAMLET
By: Lauren Blaser and
Courtney Wallace
Honors English IV Block 5
DAY ONE
King Hamlet dies from a “snake bite.”
DAY TWO
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Prince Hamlet returns to
Elsinore from the University of
Wittenberg.
Queen Gertrude marries
Claudius.
Fortinbras plans to attack
Denmark.
Claudius becomes king.
Hamlet attends his father’s
memorial service.
DAY THREE
•The Ghost of King Hamlet appears to Hamlet
and reveals that Claudius killed him.
DAY FOUR
Polonius says farewell
to Laertes who is
leaving for France and
gives him a few words
of wisdom.
“This above all: to thine own self be true…”
DAY FIVE
•Claudius and
Polonius
tell Ophelia to
break up with
Hamlet.
•Polonius and
Claudius spy on
Hamlet and Ophelia.
DAY SIX
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern arrive,
Claudius has them spy on Hamlet.
The players arrive at Elsinore.
Hamlet devises
his plan to make
“Mousetrap.”
DAY SEVEN
•“Mousetrap” is performed.
•Claudius finds out that
Hamlet knows he killed King
Hamlet.
•Hamlet accidentally kills
Polonius.
•Hamlet goes to England with
Rozencrantz and Guildenstern.
DAY EIGHT
Laertes returns to find out who killed his father.
Ophelia goes crazy because of her father’s death and drowns in a river.
Claudius and Laertes make a plan to kill Hamlet.
DAY NINE
•Hamlet returns to Denmark and Claudius.
•Ophelia’s funeral takes place.
•Osric asks Hamlet to fight in a duel against Laertes.
DAY TEN
Laertes and Hamlet have a sword fight, and Laertes uses a poisoned sword.
Claudius puts poison in the cup, and Gertrude drinks from it and dies.
Hamlet gets stabbed with the poisoned sword.
Laertes drops the sword, and Hamlet picks it up and stabs him.
As Laertes is dying, he tells Hamlet that the sword is poisoned and he will die too.
He blames everything on Claudius.
Hamlet stabs Claudius and makes him drink from the poisoned cup.
Hamlet dies and Fortinbras takes over.
THE END
“Now cracks a noble
heart.—Goodnight, sweet
prince, And flights of angels
sing thee to thy rest!”
-Horatio
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Hauppauge: Barron's Educational Series, 1986.
Print.
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New York: Spark, 2003. Print.
The Lion King. Dir. Rodger Allens and Rob Minkoff. By
Irene Mecchi and Jonathan Roberts. Walt Disney
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