October 17, 2016 - October 21, 2016 Weekly Agenda for A.P.













Monday, October 17th: 
Please bring Hamlet  to class with you.
We will read selected passages in class
You will pair up,  be assigned passages to explicate, and to identify and explain the figurative language used.
Pass out the Hamlet Act 1 Open Book Test. This will be due when we finish Act 1.
Assign in the Perrine's Literature 
Pages 885 - 886, "My Mistress' Eyes" 
Questions 1, 2, and 3 
Due on Tuesday, October 18th
For tonight: 
Read Act 1, Scene 2 
Explicate Claudius' opening speech: "Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death..."to 
"So much for him" 
Explicate Hamlet's soliloquy: 
"Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt..."to "...But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue."

In Class Work: 

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Pair up!

 Read pages 13 – 17 (end at the entrance of the ghost)

Starts on Marcellus’ line (line 81)

Identify the figurative language

Who is speaking
The subject
What is being compared to what?
What is revealed about the object, etc. by the comparison?

Line 86
“…whose sore task / Does not divide the Sunday from the week.
Marcellus is speaking
He is questioning Horatio why the country is working seven days a week in making war machines – “impressing shipwrights” means forcing ship builders to work 24/7
Metaphor
Dividing Sunday from the rest of the week
Meaning: Why are they working seven days a week?

What might be toward that this sweaty haste (imagery/personification - when one works quickly one works up a sweat)
Doth make the night joint laborer with the day?

Marcellus is speaking
Personification
Day and night are personified as workers who are working jointly around the clock

 

  Tuesday, October 18th: 
Last night's homework, Perrine's; pages 885 - 886; "My Mistress' Eyes"; Questions 1, 2, and 3
Tomorrow, the second half of Vocabulary Workshop; Level F, Unit 2, 11 - 20 will be assigned. This will be due on Tuesday, October 25th.
Go over last night's homework, Act 1, Scene 2
Read selected passages and discuss
Watch Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet 
For tonight: read Act 1, Scene 3 of Hamlet
Identify all the extended metaphors in Laertes' speech to Ophelia 
Identify all references to money in Polonius' speech to Ophelia

In-Class Work: 
Went over:
 Act 1, Scene 1, page 13, line 91, starting with Horatio's line "That can I..." ending on line 101.
Went over: 

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Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2

Page 21

Lines 8 - 14
Claudius:
Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,     - subject
Th’imperial jointress to this warlike state,   - appositive
Have we (as ‘twere with a defeated joy,  - main clause interruptus
With an auspicious and a dropping eye ,  - prepositional phrase
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,  - prepositional phrase
In equal scale weighing delight and dole) – prepositional phrase
Taken to wife – main clause.

Oyxmoron – defeated joy
Auspicious and a dropping eye – dichotomy/oxymoronic phrase
Auspicious: lucky, fortunate, fortuitous,
Mirth in funeral
Mirth: merriment
Dirge in marriage
Dirge: funeral music
Equal scale weighing delight and dole
Dole: sadness, sorrow

The theme of procrastination is embedded in the very fiber of the play – the very diction and syntax of Hamlet embodies, enhances, and echoes the theme of delay, delay, delay. In the above monologue by Claudius, he interrupts the main clause with a series of oxymoronic phrases, which attempt to show his sorrow over his brother’s death and his joy at marrying his deceased brother’s wife. After this series of breathless proclamations over his sorrow and his joy – which sheds doubt on whether his sorrow is very genuine – Claudius finally reaches his point: I have married my sister-in-law.  This keeps the audience waiting and waiting and waiting. The syntactical delay echoes Hamlet’s indecision, and weighing and constant reweighing of every action before he finally gets down to the point of his existence after his father’s death. 

Watched Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2 - ending with Hamlet's soliloquy. 



Wednesday, October 19th: 
PSAT Schedule
Watch Kenneth Branagh's "Hamlet" Act 1, Scene 3
For homework: Write a two paragraph or more essay contrasting the extended metaphors used by  Polonius in his speech to Ophelia and the extended metaphors used by Laertes in his speech to Ophela. How do the differences between the two men's speeches reveal their attitude towards Ophelia?
This will be due on Monday, October 24th. 

Thursday, October 20th: 
Assigned "Adjective Clauses" in the grammar book, Writer's Choice; pages 540 - 541; exercises 8, 9, 10, 11. This will be due on Tuesday, October 25th. 
Review Laertes' and Polonius' speech to Ophelia in class.
Read Act 1, Scenes 4 and 5
For  homework: Find examples of figurative language in Act 1, Scene 4 and Act 1, Scene 5: write the examples, identify and explain how it relates to the theme, the characters, or plot points.

In-class Work:
 
Watch Act 1 of Hamlet
Looking ahead:
On Monday,
Review Act 1, Scene 1
Scene between Hamlet, Claudius, and Gertrude
Review Hamlet’s speech, “Oh that this too, too sullied flesh would melt /
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew…..”
Review Act 1, Scene 2
Polonius’ speech to Laertes
Pair and share
Act 1, Scene 3
Pair up and analyze Laertes’ speech to Ophelia
Identify the metaphors and other figurative language
The meaning of the metaphors
Analyze how the metaphors contribute to the tone or attitude of Laertes toward Ophelia.
Then analyze Polonius’ speech to Ophelia
Identify the metaphors
The meaning of the metaphors
Analyze how the metaphors contribute to the tone or attitude of Polonius towards Ophelia


Friday, October 21st: 
Special schedule today.
No 2nd Period today. 




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