Week 8 Tuesday, March 19, 2019 Hamlet day 3

 

Who is your Hamlet?

Kenneth Branagh?

Do you like Branagh? 

Here’s 101 reasons you need to see Branagh’s Hamlet! Click HERE.

Click also on this link:

http://www.branaghcompendium.com/101.htm

 

                       or   Ethan Hawke?

      

Sly       or          Mel?

Law         or        Tennant?

          

Beale       or        Lester?

Eden Prairie’s own John Skelley?

                    

                          Richard Burton?

  Hmmmm?

Or maybe someone totally different?

Conn’s graduation picture!!  EPHS 1978

 

People are not always as they seem

ACT 2

Do you like comparing video versions of Hamlet?  Try these amazing youtube links:

THE FISHMONGER SCENE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgNqvl4zGis&feature=relmfu

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDwv_6PuH90

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEDjy40hTpw&feature=relmfu

       

 

“Polonius, thou art a fishmonger!”

LOOK BELOW!  THE WORD “fishmonger” IS STILL WIDELY USED IN ENGLAND TODAY!

 

THE “WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS MAN” SPEECH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z2B7hkMBSc&feature=relmfu

Sir Ian McKellan

         

Mel Gibson             Richard Burton

Interview about Hamlet and esp. about to be or not to be

Rowan Atkinson interviews Hugh Laurie as Shakespeare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwbB6B0cQs4&feature=related

Shakespeare Who’s on First?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaGHVWKrcpQ&feature=related

Abbott & Costello’s Who’s on First? original

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sShMA85pv8M&feature=related

Brush up your Shakespeare from Kiss Me Kate–version 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-CSb3Xe06s&feature=related

Brush up your Shakespeare from Kiss Me Kate–version 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSmZfnax1yw

History of Shakespeare–Brief and Naughty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQGATTeg1Os&NR=1

Today’s quote:

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in it” –Hamlet

Today’s allusion:

Janus

 

and

a chip on one’s shoulder

Today’s Words of the Day

assuage

attenuate

vacuous

stentorian

Group Check-in:

1.  Compare quizzes
   
2. “Woman’s World” comparison and consensus

Class Plan:

1. ALLUSION OF THE DAY / WORDS / HW
   
2. ANNOUNCEMENTS–debrief CLT PAPER buybacks
   
3. Discuss ACT 1 scenes 1-2–Ides of March speech, Elizabethan notions of ghosts
   

4. Vicious Mole speech and Tragedy Myths and Reality #1-2:  what constitutes a tragedy, tragic hero, tragic flaw, pity and fear, catharsis.  Refer to the blue “Tragedy and Theatre Packet”

5.  TOMORROW!  Do advice slip.  Jot down some “life” advice you have learned along the way.  Do not put your name on this slip.  Jot down as many words of wisdom that you would like on this sheet.

HOMEWORK COLLECTED TODAY:

1. Extra credit–tragedy (see Hamlet assignment H6)
   
2. Act 1 green quiz
3. Sol Packet–sol 2 and vicious mole

HOMEWORK:

1. Do PR response to PR#2. 

2.  Do Hamlet Assignment  H8 #1 only due WEDNESDAY:  1.) Do WA15  Act 1 Topics  Note that this will be a peer exchange journal.  Here are the topics:  2.)  OPTIONAL–DUE THURSDAY–Read Act 2 pages 35-53. 

   SUGGESTION FROM WALLY:  Try to read the entire pages 35-53 straight through, and then take a break.  Come back to the text and then read it again along with doing the quiz as you annotate in your Hamlet book.  SO MUCH HAPPENS!

   3.) OPTIONAL–DUE THURSDAY–

   Then do the yellow Act 2 quiz.  For a copy of this quiz, click HERE .                                                                      BE SURE TO JOT DOWN THE PAGE NUMBERS WHEN CALLED FOR.  WARNING!  You may find this quiz very tedious with the page numbers required.  Also, this quiz is most often graded INDIVIDUALLY (That will keep you on your toes!)

   Click HERE for a copy of the ivory SKULL HAMLET PACKET.  Click HERE for a copy of the PURPLE HAMLET ASSIGNMENT PACKET.

3.    OPTIONAL! DO SOME HAMLET BONUS COUPON STUFF! DUE AT THE END OF HAMLET after Spring Break.  Why not do some other Hamlet extra credit journals?  To see the list, clickHERE.  Wally is also open to a creative topic!  Write her a proposal! 

4.    vs.
   

   Lit. Analysis Paper on Paired Works

   Due next week on Wednesday, March 27th by 3:30 pm in Wally’s room.  Turn in paper to Turn-it-in.com by midnight Thursday.

   All Lit. Analysis Paper questions need to be answered by Olson. Olson’s email is rolson@edenpr.org

   You will need to staple and turn in the following IN ORDER:

   1. grading sheet with the student comment box filled out (Olson takes off 1 point if it isn’t finished.)

   2. the topic outline in FORMAL MLA format (see SM msf section pages msf 6-msf 11.  Double-spaced or single spaced format is okay as there are two models in the SM to follow.  Double-spaced outlines are easier to type.  Watch out for WORD!  It tends to space/indent things wrong.)

   3. the paper–No highlighting should be done anywhere on the paper.

   4. the works-cited page–No highlighting should be done anywhere on WC.

   5. your summer reading book and any supplemental sources.  Make sure you bring your own copy of the summer reading book for doc checks. and double check the editions and how to do the WC page for the novels.

    SAMPLE OUTLINES AND FIRST PAGES OF LIT. ANALYSIS PAPERS:

   1. 1.  Sample A–Beardsley  (point by point organization example) Click AP LIT ANALYS A POINT BY POINT STYLE BY STEVE BEARDSLEY_001.

      2.  Sample B–Li (block style organization example) Click AP LIT ANALYSIS B BLOCK STYLE by HE LI_001.

      3.  Sample C–Paulus (point by point organization example) Click AP LIT ANALYSIS C POINT BY POINT STYLE BY BRIAN PAULUS_001.

      2.  Sample D–Farrell (block style organization example) Click AP LIT ANALYSIS D BLOCK STYLE BY ANN FARRELL_001.  NOTE:  Ann Farrell’s paper was done