Wednesday October 31, 2018: Using Sources for Writing

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1. Answer the Bell  Ringer
2. Quizlet.live for Act II vocabulary

October 25, 2018: Close Reading: Act 1, Scene 1 Hamlet

Read the Article Below and Create a Coggle.it with the following branches:

1. The quote: copy and paste the quote
2. Context: (Why does Marcellus say this--what's happened)
3. Meaning:What does Marcellus seem to be saying?
4. Essayist's Interpretation: What meaning does the author ascribe to this speech?
5. Your interpretation: Do you agree with the Essayist?  Why or Why not?
6. Shakespeare's intent: Why do you think this image of Christmas is in the play? What time of year is it? What does this have to do with a ghost? or with war?
7. How does this tie into the information that the ghost delivers to Hamlet in scene 5?

Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes 
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, 
The bird of dawning singeth all night long; 
And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad, 
The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike, 
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, 
So hallowed and so gracious is the time.                                                 
(I, i, 157)

SO HALLOWED AND so gracious is the time—these lines from the first scene of Hamlet in a sense say it all. We tend to think of time as progression, as moment following moment, day following day, in relentless flow, the kind of time a clock or calendar can measure. But we experience time also as depth, as having quality as well as quantity—a good time, a dangerous time, an auspicious time, a time we mark not by its duration but by its content.

On the dark battlements of Elsinore, Marcellus speaks to his companions of the time of Jesus' birth. It is a hallowed time he says, a holy time, a time in which life grows still like the surface of a river so that we can look down into it and see glimmering there in its depths something timeless, precious, other. And a gracious time, Marcellus says—a time that we cannot bring about as we can bring about a happy time or a sad time but a time that comes upon us as grace, as a free and unbidden gift. Marcellus explains that Christmas is a time of such holiness that the cock crows the whole night through as though it is perpetually dawn, and thus for once, even the powers of darkness are powerless. 

Horatio's answer is equally instructive. "So have I heard and do in part believe," he says to Marcellus, thus speaking, one feels, not just for himself but for Shakespeare and for us. 

In part believe it. 

At Christmas time it is hard even for the unbeliever not to believe in something if not in everything. Peace on earth, good will to men; a dream of innocence that is good to hold on to even if it is only a dream; the mystery of being a child; the possibility of hope—not even the canned carols piped out over the shopping center parking plaza from Thanksgiving on can drown it out entirely. 

For a moment or two, the darkness of disenchantment, cynicism, doubt, draw back at least a little, and all the usual worldly witcheries lose something of their power to charm. Maybe we cannot manage to believe with all our hearts. But as long as the moments last, we can believe that this is of all things the thing most worth believing. And that may not be as far as it sounds from what belief is. For as long as the moment lasts, that hallowed, gracious time.

- Originally published in The Faces of Jesus by 

Frederick Buechner

Wednesday October 24, 2018: It harrows me with fear and wonder

1. Act I Quiz Socrative
2. Turn in Act I review paper for grade

Monday October 22, 2018: He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders of his affection to me

1. quizlet.live for Hamlet Act II vocabulary
2. Act I, Scene III: using No Fear Shakespeare find 3 quotes to Laertes from Polonius and explain what he means add this to your google doc
3. Act I, Scene III: using No Fear Shakespeare find 3 quotes to Ophelia from Polonius and explain what he means add this to your google doc
4. You will submit your answers to a google form tomorrow
5. Study your vocabulary for Act II when finished.

Wednesday/Thursday October 17-18, 2018: Toys of Desperation

The Ghost motions Hamlet to follow

Wednesday: Leadership Trip

Thursday/Friday:

1. Quiz on Act I Vocabulary Hamlet (Socrative)
2. Finish watching Act 1.5 (The Ghost)
3. Finish Notes Act 1.5 (Google docs)
4. Quizlet.live for Act II Hamlet
5. Go back to Act 1.3 (Laertes and Ophelia)
6. Coggle.it for Hamlet

Tuesday October 16, 2018: Some vicious mole of nature

1. Quizlet.live for Hamlet Act I vocabulary
2. Quiz tomorrow for Act I vocabulary
3. Finish breaking down Hamlet's speech 1.4.15-41 (google docs)
4. Coggle.it for Act I

Thursday October 11, 2018: O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt

MAKE SURE YOU FINISH AND SUBMIT YOUR ESSAY FROM UNIT 1

1. Create Accounts at collegeboard.org, No Red Ink, & khanacademy.org
2. Quizlet.live for Act I vocabulary Hamlet
3. Plot Summaries for Act I 
4. Finish Watching Act I
5. Break down Hamlet's speech 1.4.15-41

Friday-Monday October 8-9, 2018: "A little more than kin, and less than kind"

MAKE SURE YOU FINISH AND SUBMIT YOUR ESSAY FROM UNIT 1

1. quizlet.live for Act I Hamlet vocabulary
2. Watch Act I, Scene 1
3. Google docs/notes for Act I scene 1/2

Monday

Transcripts with Ms. Wolfe

Thursday October 3, 2018: Shakespeare's Imagery

MAKE SURE YOU FINISH AND SUBMIT YOUR ESSAY FROM UNIT 1

1. Quizlet.live for Hamlet Act I
2. Open Google Doc and create the graphic on the right----->
3. Review the state of affairs at the beginning of the Play
4. Watch Act I, Scene 1 of Film

Wednesday October 3, 2018: Vocabulary and Characters for Hamlet

MAKE SURE YOU FINISH AND SUBMIT YOUR ESSAY FROM UNIT 1

1. Quizlet.live for Hamlet Act I Vocabulary
2. Add Characters to Google Doc
3. Act I scene 1 (1.1)

Tuesday October 2, 2018: Introduction to Shakespeare

MAKE SURE YOU FINISH AND SUBMIT YOUR ESSAY FROM UNIT 1

1. Quizlet.live for Hamlet Act I Vocabulary
2. Add Characters to Google Doc
3. Google Drawing inserted in to Google Doc on structure of Shakespearian Drama (The 5 Act Play)

Monday September 1, 2018: Unit 2 Shakespeare--The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

MAKE SURE YOU FINISH AND SUBMIT YOUR ESSAY FROM UNIT 1

1. Create a Google Doc: 6TH YOUR LAST NAME--SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDY OF HAMLET-The Prince of Denmark
2. Copy and paste this image of Shakespeare into your doc------->
3. Notes on Shakespeare
4. Shakespeare Film