TP3 Rough Draft

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Day 16 HAMLET

Do Now: Choose a character (Hamlet or Ophelia) or a motif (sickness/decay, ears/hearing, or actors/the theater) of interest and write a question or observation about your choice. 

Today's Learning Target:
I will be able to structure a body paragraph that includes both primary and secondary source quotations.
I will know that I have hit the learning target when...
-I can label the key parts of a body paragraph for the secondary source paragraph.
-I can begin drafting a paragraph that takes into account both my own argument and a critic's.

Agenda: 

1. Incorporating Secondary Sources
2. Body paragraph sample
3. Practice paragraph
4. TP3 work
5. Exit Ticket: One new idea/perspective I have about Hamlet is...

HW: Work on your TP3 draft. You are synthesizing two of your primary sources and incorporating at least one secondary source.

Mid-Term Break

Best wishes on your mid-terms!

Please read V.i for Friday, 22 January. Bring in a question or connection.

Day 14 HAMLET

Benjamin West's "Ophelia Before the King and Queen"

Do Now: There are many doubles in Shakespeare's plays (e.g., the feuding Montagues and Capulets of Romeo and Juliet, sets of twins in Twelfth Night and A Comedy of Errors, foils like Banquo and Macbeth in Macbeth, etc.). What is a double in Hamlet and what does it make you think about?

Today's Learning Target:
I will be able to observe how Shakespeare repeats plot elements in Act IV that compel his audience to reconsider earlier events in the play.

I will know that I have hit the learning target when...
-I can point out which characters in Act IV undergo similar sequences of events that other characters experience earlier in the play.
-I can make a claim about what this repetition emphasizes.

Agenda: 

1. Doubles to consider
2. Act IV
3. Exit Ticket: What do the echoes and doubles in Hamlet make the audience consider?

HW: Please submit your revised TP2 on the form below.

Day 13 HAMLET

Do Now: "In a brilliant scene [III.ii] the resolution of Hamlet's doubts by the play-within-a-play triggers the murderous reaction by the now thoroughly alarmed antagonist [Claudius]. It is the height of irony that the exposure of Claudius's secret also involves the exposure of Hamlet's and thereby sets in motion a counteraction that will eventually destroy him in his moment of victory." (Bowers 25)

I agree/disagree with the critic because...

Today's Learning Target:
I will be able to recognize elements of dramatic structure and support my observations with appropriate evidence and analysis.
I will know that I have hit the learning target when...
-I can point to an event that serves as the climax of the play.
-I can make a claim about why this event is the play's turning point.

Agenda: 

1. III.iii-iv
2. The Point of No Return
3. Exit Ticket: To what other heroes would you compare Hamlet?

HW: Prepare one entry for Friday's blog entry.


Upcoming Thesis Dates

January 8: PS4 entries due

January 12: TP2 revised draft due