Ms. Bridges' AP English

Shakespeare Sports! Pair up and select one of the following selections. You will then summarize the passage; list any and all metaphorical devices, literary devices and/or rhetorical devices and SHOW HOW AND WHY THEY ARE BEING USED. You and your team will then present your findings to the class: 1. Page 91; Act 2, Scene 2; Polonius; lines 140 – 160 2. Page 93; Act 2, Scene 2; Polonius; lines 176 – 181; 189 – 235 3. Page 97 – 99; Act 2, Scene 2; Hamlet, R&G; lines 240 – 272 4. Page 99; Act 2, Scene 2; Hamlet, R & G; lines 273 – 315 5. Page 99 - 101; Act 2, Scene 2; Hamlet, R &G; lines 315 – 342 6. Page 103; Act 2, Scene 2; Hamlet, R & G; lines 351 – 390 7. Page 105; Act 2, Scene 2; Hamlet, R & G and players; 392 – 444 8. Page 111 – 112; Act 2, Scene; Hamlet & 1 st Player; lines 475 - 544 9. Page 117 – 119; Act 2, Scene 2; Hamlet; lines 576 – 634 The lovely Ellada and the equally lovely Roxana: #1: Summary: Polonius ...

Act 3 HAMLET ASSIGNMENTS: Scene 1 1. Take the "To be, or not to be" soliloquy and dividing it into six parts, create six panels, illustrate the passages and write the passages underneath as captions (like a cartoon or storyboard). The passages are lines 64 - 66; 67 - 72; 73 - 77; 78 - 85; 86 - 90; 91 - 96 (Stop at "... And lose the name of action.") 2. The Hamlet and Ophelia Scene: Rewrite in contemporary English and perform. You may also reinterpret with music, dance and spoken word. Scene 2 Pages 165 - 166; Lines 40 - 76: Take Claudius' attempt at prayers and reinterpret with music, dance and spoken word. Page 165 - 185: Hamlet and Gertrude Scene Reinterpret with music, dance and spoken word.

January 23, 2012 - January 27, 2012 Weekly Agenda for A.P. English Literature Monday, January 23rd: Watch Act 3, Scene 4 and Act 4 of Kenneth Branagh's version of HAMLET. For tonight, read Act 5, Scene 1 and write a brief summary; write the figurative language devices used; identify the figurative language devices; translate the quotation into contemporary English, and explain who is speaking; to whom s/he is speaking and under what circumstances. Tuesday, January 24th: Minimum Day Discussion of Act 4, Scenes 1 and 2 For tonight, read Act 5, Scene 2 and do a reading log. Wednesday, January 25th: Discussion of Act 4, Scenes 3 and 4 For homework: Please write a minimum 500 word essay on the theme of decay in HAMLET. Use the figurative devices to support your thesis. This will be due on Friday, January 27th. Thursday, January 26th: Discussion of Act 4, Scene 5 Friday, January 27th: Discussion of Act 4, Scenes 5, 6, and 7 Break into groups, choose one of the following scenes from Act...

Weekly Agenda for January 17, 2012 - January 20, 2012 A.P. English Literature Monday, January 16th: No school today in observance of Martin Luther King's birthday. Tuesday, January 17th: Presentation of creative interpretation of Claudius' soliloquy Wednesday, January 18th: Conclude with presentations Divide class into groups and analyze Act 3, Scene 4 Give a brief summary of your section; provide all figurative language devices and conclude with tableau. Thursday, January 19th: Present your Act 3, Scene 4 analysis Watch the Hamlet/Gertrude scene in the Kenneth Branagh film of HAMLET. Friday, January 20th: Act 4 test and Act 4 reading logs are due today. Watch Act 4 of HAMLET.

Act 3, Scene 2 Hamlet's Advice to the Players (Folger's Edition: lines 1 - 47) 1. Pair up with a partner 2. Read Hamlet's advice to the actors 3, Write down as many pieces of advice to the actors as you can find 4. When you are satisfied you have found all of them, go to board and write them down. 5. The first pair to get the most wins. Act out the things that Hamlet says bad actors do. Hamlet's Reasons for Loving and Respecting Horatio: (Folger's Edition: lines 59 - 79) 1. Pair up with a partner 2. Read Hamlet's reasons for loving Horatio 3. Write down as many reasons as you can find 4. When you are satisfied you have found them all, go to board and write them down. 5. The first pair to get the most reasons correctly, wins. The Theme of Fortune in HAMLET: Using the "Theme Wheel" find references to fortune throughout the play; write down the quotation and under what figurative device the quotation would fall ...

HAMLET ACT 1, SCENE 1 Usurp: to take that which does not belong to one. The younger son usurped the throne from his older brother. Marcellus, Barnardo, Francisco: guards Horatio: an intellectual, a scholar and Prince Hamlet’s best friend Does Horatio believe the guards’ tale that a ghost – possibly the dead King’s ghost – is walking the earth? "Tis here!" "Tis here!" "Tis gone!" Notice how the above exchanges between the guards have a musicality, a rhythm which lend to the urgency of the scene. Doth make the night joint laborer with the day? Visualize what that is saying. Imagine a guy (night) laboring (working) with another guy (day) working shoulder to shoulder. In other words, 24/7. Thirty years ago Fortinbras challenged King Hamlet to a fight. A legal document was drawn up that who ever won the fray would secede the land to the winner. King Hamlet won. Thirty years later young Fortinbras wants the land back. Assi...

HAMLET ACT 1 Usurp: to take that which does not belong to one. The younger son usurped the throne from his older brother. Marcellus, Barnardo, Francisco: guards Horatio: an intellectual, a scholar and Prince Hamlet’s best friend Does Horatio believe the guards’ tale that a ghost – possibly the dead King’s ghost – is walking the earth? Doth make the night joint laborer with the day? Visualize what that is saying. Imagine a guy (night) laboring (working) with another guy (day) working shoulder to shoulder. In other words, 24/7. Thirty years ago Fortinbras challenged King Hamlet to a fight. A legal document was drawn up that who ever won the fray would secede the land to the winner. King Hamlet won. Thirty years later young Fortinbras wants the land back. Assignment: Page 19 draw three pictures illustrating Horatio’s and Marcellus’s lines. Discuss on Monday the divine rights of kings. What happens when the king’s right to rule is usurped by one who...

Hamlet Act 2, Scene 1: In this scene Polonius is giving instructions to his servant Reynaldo to spy on Laertes, his son, in Paris. (Again, note the theme of spying) Polonius is giving Reynaldo money to give to his son, but tells him to “to make inquire of his behavior”. “Inquire me first what Danskers are in town….” This is an example of elision or omission of words (words are intentionally left out to insure the lines scan in iambic pentameter.) What word or words are left out? Dansker: Danes Polonius tells Reynaldo to inquire about Laertes’ behavior in a roundabout general way: “encompassment and drift of question” and by this way will arrive at the truth faster and more completely than by asking directly (“…come you more nearer / Than your particular demands will touch it.”) Do you think that’s true? Polonius further instructs Reynaldo, the servant, to say that he doesn’t know him well, but has some “…distant knowledge of him…” Mark: Listen well! Are ...

Act 2, Scene 1: Polonius is discussing with Reynaldo plans to spy on Laertes while he is at university. Danskers: Danes Line 12: you will get more information asking indirectly than directly. Line 15: pretend you don’t really know him well.  You know his father and his friends, but him slightly. Forgeries: false stories or lies (line 22) Polonius tells Reynaldo to spread little stories about Laertes gambling, drinking, fencing, swearing, going to brothels - Reynaldo takes exception to the brothel. The above things: the drinking, the swearing, the fencing are things that a young man should do and is expected to do, but should not do them to excess. Going to the brothel would indicate too much licentiousness and moral failure (syphilis was not curable at the time and would bring dishonor on the family). Men are expected to sow their wild oats. Young men should carouse, drink, participate in sports. Drift: Catch my drift?  Drift: Purpose; what I am getting at? Schem...