Please share!

I want to take some time in class and examine how Hamlet has been translated into popular culture. Several of you (Sean :) have already shared video clips, cartoons, etc... that show how pop culture has imagined Hamlet. Please post below any others that you find (there may be something in it for you!)

Attendance!

• Please remember that you are responsible for all missed work and for making up the quizzes in a timely manner. You are also responsible for missed notes.
• If you are in school on the day I give a quiz or a paper and you are not in class, I do expect that you see me THAT day.
• Obviously, most of you are extremely responsible and excellent about letting me know about absences and about quickly making up missed work; this message is NOT for you :) 

Hamlet soliloquy response paper

Directions: Write a one to two page (preferably typed paper in which you respond to one of the following prompts. Be sure to use textual details and analysis of the details to support you claims. Due Tuesday :)

1. What is the root of Hamlet's problems?
2. Does Hamlet change over the course of Act1-Act III or is he mostly static?
3. Does Hamlet perceive what others are unable to perceive, or is his perception faulty?

Homework for Tuesday

• If you were absent on Friday, please make sure to stop by the ERC and make up your Hamlet quiz.  Please do so by Wednesday.
• Be sure to prepare your soliloquy for the activity on Tuesday.
• Act IV is due on Thursday
• Act V is due the following Tuesday
• Remember, I reserve the right to give an unannounced quiz :)

Cartoon

Remember to Read Act III for Friday

• There will be a quiz on Acts 1-3
• Be sure to pay special attention to the soliloquies
• Remember to consider the field trip

NY Times articles

These are worth reading: https://www.google.com/search?q=ny+times+how+we+learn+to+kill&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/style/bringing-a-daughter-back-from-the-brink-with-poems.html

Homework for Thursday

• Be sure to read Act I, scene i and Act I, scene ii
• Concentrate your attention on Claudius in scene ii (who is this guy?, what is his character?, what are his motivations?) and on determining what we can discern about Hamlet (with particular attention to his soliloquy)
• If you are interested, Amazon has a 2.99 download of the full Branagh version of Hamlet. It's fabulous and if you watch and read the closed captioning, you have an excellent method of reading and understanding the play at your disposal.

Homework and Reminders

Your synthesis paper, with a completed and updated annotated bib is due in class on Tuesday.

Be sure to have read Act I, scene I of Hamlet!

Hamlet Act I, scene i due