HAMLET OPENING
ASSIGNMENTS 2014
HAMLET
THEME: DECISIONS, BASED ON DATA, ARE FILTERED BY OUR BELIEFS.
REVIEW FOCUS QUESTIONS
RENAISSANCE THEATER
• First permanent theater built in 1576
– The Theater
• The greatest period of drama since
Greeks
• Professional troupes of players
• Shakespeare greatest playwright
RENAISSANCE DRAMA
• CHANGES in
staging: a
building,
professional actors,
support of
monarchy,
inventive drama
• Yard, stage,
gallery, few props,
close contact
between
audience/actors
RENAISSANCE STAGE
GUIDING QUESTIONS FOR THIS UNIT
1. Which decisions I
make today will affect
me for my entire life?
2. How do I develop a
realistic plan for the
future?
3. How can I invent
new opportunities?
4. How will knowing
how decisions are
made help me plan for
my life?
5. When is loyalty
to myself, and my
own values, more
important than
loyalty to a friend?
6. Can one
apparently have all
the right
information and
make the wrong
decisions?
OBJECTIVES
• Explore
Shakespeare’s use
of poetic language
• Explore character
development of
Hamlet
• Analyze themes
explored in Hamlet
• Justify the traits of a
classic that apply to
Hamlet
TEXTBOOK NOTES
P. 894-902
• Terms to own:
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Groundlings
Aside
Soliloquy
Comic relief
Revenge tragedy
(957-958)
• QUESTIONS:
• How are asides and
soliloquys used?
• What are the traits
of a revenge
tragedy?
TEXTBOOK
P. 957-958
• Traits of a revenge
tragedy
• How does the
character Hamlet
take a typical
revenge tragedy
further?
• List of traitscharacterization of
Hamlet
• What are some of
Hamlet’s conflicts?
• Predict: based upon
this informationwhat themes might
Shakespeare be
developing?
Quick Write
• One of the most famous lines from the play Hamlet involves
words of advice spoken by Polonius to his son Laertes: “This
above all to thine own self be true.”
• Explain the meaning of the quote. Do you agree or disagree
with the meaning?
• Describe a real life situation in which you have practiced or
failed to practice this idea. What was the outcome?
TEXT BOOKMARK & FREYTAG’S
MODEL
• Receive bookmarks
• Read and discuss Feytag’s Pyramid
• Create own blank model
VIEWING
• Shakespeare Module 5: Hamlet Basics (5 segments-26
minutes)
• www.unitedstreaming.com
• Begin reading the play.
• Fill in bookmarks and pyramid as you go.
Shakespeare for the Impaired
• Online resource-a modern version-not academically sound,
but gives a feel for the meaning and idea of the lines.
• http://www.sullivanet.com/misc/hamlet/start.htm
ACT 1, scene iii
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Chart the advice Polonius gives his son Laretes.
Quote it
Rewrite it in modern language
View:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXId5jOTxdg
(1:26 min.)
QUICK WRITE :
Act 1, final scene (4)
• Why or why not should Hamlet listen to the Ghost of his
father?
• What would you do if you were Hamlet?
PARAPHRASE ACTIVITY
• Small group/partner modern translation and sharing of
assigned passage.
• Ophelia & Hamlet scene
• Gilligan’s Island
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4qRWsgxssA&NR=1&fea
ture=endscreen
• (2:29)