October 31, 2016 - November 4, 2016 Weekly Agenda for A.P. English

Monday, October 31st: 
Not here.
Students analyzed passages they were assigned from Act 2, Scene 2
Turned in.

Tuesday, November 1st:

2^nd Period: 

Passed back work

Assigned Act 2 test, which is now downloadable on the blog.  This will be due on Friday, November 4th. 

Analyze the two speeches by Polonius and Laertes to Ophelia in Act 1, Scene 3. Analyze both characters’ use of figurative language (metaphors, imagery, puns and choice of themes) and how it is used to reveal who the men are and their attitudes toward Ophelia and love. 

The rewrite of this essay will be on Thursday, November 3rd.

Helpful hints:

Look for the use of nature imagery in Laertes’ speech.

Look for the use of money imagery in Polonius’ speech.

What is an extended metaphor?

Long passages in which a metaphor is used to explain and explore a person or thing being discussed.

Aisha:

Itzeel:

“A violet in the youth of primy nature….”

Jonathan:

“The perfume and suppliance of a minute….”

Alexandria:

“For nature, crescent does not grow alone…grows wide withal…”

Kaitlyn:

“If she unmasks her beauty to the moon.”

Courtney:

Giovanny:

“And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch”

Andres:

“The canker galls the infants of the spring…and contagious blastments are most imminent.”

Tongue twister: alliteration

Alliteration occurs when the first letter of each word begins with the same letter.

Wednesday, November 3rd: 

Went over the Compare/Contrast Essay over Figurative Analysis of Polonius’ and Laertes’ advice to Ophelia.

Connotations: emotional aspect that surrounds a word

Euphemism: a socially acceptable or appropriate word or phrase to replace an unpleasant or unacceptable word or phrase.

Litote: understatement

Connotations for the word “nature”

Christopher: gentle

Laszlo: miraculous

Kelly: tender

Alexandria: nurturing

What do the references to money reveal about Polonius?

His many references to money reveal Polonius to be materialistic, concerned about status and propriety.

Examine the properties of money: it is cold, hard, unfeeling.

Examine the properties of silver (sterling): it is cold, hard, shiny.

Even when Polonius references the word “tender”  as in legal tender, or “tender yourself more dearly” or “you will tender me a fool”, he means it in a harsh way. 

Propriety: socially appropriate behavior; the state of conforming to the accepted standards of behavior.

Synonyms: respectability, decency, courtesy, appropriateness, civility

The essay rewrite will be due tomorrow, Thursday, November 4^th.

Brief discussion of the “Players’ Scene”.

Watched Hamlet

Thursday, November 3rd:

Period 2:

Present your analyzed scenes from Act 2, Scene 2 to the class:

Inform the students the lines that you have analyzed

Who is speaking and to whom

What is the subject manner?

Summary

Any figurative language or themes or character revelations that appear

Page 91

Jorge, Giovanny

Polonius; pages 140 – 160

Figurative Language: (Hamlet) is out of your star.”

“Playing the desk or the table” – metaphor. Rather than being a piece of furniture, not telling you of this information about Hamlet, I will do my duty and tell you.

Jonathan and Nuria

Lines 155 – 160

Summary: This scene occurs after Polonius has read the letter and told his daughter to stay away from Hamlet. Polonius tells the king and Queen that when he found out about Hamlet’s affair he told Ophelia she must break off the relationship immediately “for {Hamlet} is a star out of her orbit.”  Polonius tells Claudius and Gertrude that  Ophelia’s rejection of Hamlet has caused Hamlet to go mad.

He has fallen into a  watch (He sits staring)

Then a fast (He has stopped eating)

Then a lightness (The strange peculiar behavior one falls into before the onset of psychosis.)

Then by that declension – a progression
Into madness

It was a popular notion among Elizabethan, Romantic, and Victorian poets, writers, and artists that love sick people sighed a great deal, sat staring off into space, did not eat or sleep, and could go mad from love - and write lots of bad poetry. 

Surmier and Jayla

Appropriate terms to be used for Hamlet and Ophelia

Lovers

They have become lovers

Ophelia is Hamlet’s mistress

Random – erratic

Summary: Polonius will “loose his daughter”(turn loose) onto Hamlet while he hides behind an arras to spy on Hamlet and Ophelia.  One “looses” one’s dog on the rabbit. One looses one’s horses in the field, but one does not loose one’s daughter.

Arras: a thick heavy tapestry or curtain.

Themes of spying.

Friday, November 4th: 

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Summary; analysis of figurative language, characterization, themes

Act 2, Scene 2: Page 93, Lines 176 – 181; 189 – 235

Luis:

Page 97 – 99, lines 240 – 272

Brice, Briana

R and G arrive, who are Hamlet’s old friends. Hamlet refers to Denmark as a prison, but his friends protest, saying that the world is a prison. Hamlet become suspicious about why these friends have suddenly arrived and suspect they were sent for.  Things get really awkward

Kelly and Alexendria

Hamlet just found out that his father was murdered and does not know who he can trust; therefore, he doesn’t know if he can trust his two old friends. He is feeling overwhelmed and cannot trust anyone.

Hamlet feels that Denmark is a prison and he is alone in the world.

Strumpet:

Surmier: Female prostitute

Page 99; lines 273 – 315

Courtney, Andres

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have been sent by the King.

Paradox: Hamlet feels trapped in a nutshell but he could rule in infinite space if he didn’t have bad dreams.

The ambition of the rich and powerful is without substance, and those of substance are the poor and powerless.

Dylan and Abner

Discussion of Hamlet’s monologue:

“I have of late, but wherefore, I know not….Man delights not me, (no) nor woman neither….”

This is a description of clinical depression. The things he used to enjoy he no longer finds pleasure in (lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise), that this earth seems like a desert, and this most excellent canopy, the sky, this majestical roof, fretted with golden fire (the sun)  - why it appears to him as nothing but a vapor, a cloud of illness, of contagion, of pestilence.  Man, the paragon of animals, is like a god in abilities and talents and mind, but to Hamlet, he is nothing more than dust.

The closing date to enter grades for this grading period is Thursday, November 10^th at 4:00 p.m. I am closing the gate for grading for 2^nd period A.P. at midnight, on Friday, November 4^th.  What ever you turn in after midnight, Friday, November 4^th will not be counted for this grading period but will be counted for the last grading period.