Monday - Writer's Notebook: "Write from the perspective of anyone in Elsinore Castle about Hamlet's 'antic disposition.' What actions and activities are Hamlet engaged in to convince everyone that he is crazy?"
Tuesday - Review Quiz - Act I
Wednesday - Writer's Notebook: "Have you or anyone you have known ever seen or claimed to have witnessed some kind of supernatural being? Explain the circumstances surrounding the event. Do you believe in the supernatural?"
Thursday -
Friday - Writer's Notebook: "Friday Freewrite!"
- Hamlet Act I Quiz
- Read Hamlet Act II, Scene i, ii
Tuesday - Review Quiz - Act I
- Distribute The Glass Menagerie study guide. The test will be on February 9.
- Read Hamlet Act II, Scenes ii
- HW - Find 3 quotes to characterize any character in the play so far.
Wednesday - Writer's Notebook: "Have you or anyone you have known ever seen or claimed to have witnessed some kind of supernatural being? Explain the circumstances surrounding the event. Do you believe in the supernatural?"
- Read Hamlet Act II, Sc. ii
Thursday -
- Finish Hamlet Act II
- Analyze Hamlet's soliloquy that finishes the act. Work on discussion questions packet for Acts I & II
- HW - Finish soliloquy interpretation
Friday - Writer's Notebook: "Friday Freewrite!"
- Share soliloquy interpretations.
- Watch Acts I & II of Franco Zephirelli's version of Hamlet
- HW - Finish Discussion questions for Acts I & II. Due Monday.