Persuasive Essay Outline

Continue the pre-writing steps for the persuasive essay (in case you've misplaced it, the packet is linked here).

HW: Outline/draft due Friday.

Day 12 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.i-vi
3. Exit Ticket: What do the echoes and doubles in Hamlet make the audience consider?

Small Daily Task: Continue working on the pre-writing steps for the persuasive essay.

Day 11 HAMLET

Do Now: Read over the famous lines/phrases from Act III on page 341 of the Folger edition of the play and select one that strikes you as the best "title" for Act III. Explain your reasoning. 

Today's Learning Target:
I will be able to revisit Act III and discuss the turning point of the play.
I will know that I have hit the learning target when...
-I can summarize the key events from Act III.
-I can explain the consequences of key events from Act III.

Agenda: 

1. Reviewing Act III
2. Look over your cast of characters and draw lines between characters where there is a major conflict (e.g., you would draw a line from Hamlet to Claudius to indicate their conflict in figuring one another out and wondering how to respond to their respective threats).
3. IV.i
4. Exit Ticket: What do you think is preventing Hamlet from acting?

Small Daily Task: Begin the brainstorm for the persuasive essay. Outline (or more!) due 2/14/20. Final draft due 2/25/20.

Day 10 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.iv
2. The Point of No Return
3. Exit Ticket: To what other heroes would you compare Hamlet?

HW: Journal on long nonfiction due Friday. 

Day 9 HAMLET

Do Now: Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy is arguably the most-quoted speech from any of Shakespeare's plays. But does that mean that it's the best understood? What do you (or did you once) think the speech is about?

Today's Learning Target:
I will be able to  make a claim about how the two soliloquies in act III, scene i further develop the conflicts of Hamlet and Ophelia.
I will know that I have hit the learning target when...
-I can compare and contrast Hamlet's and Ophelia's soliloquies.
-I can explain how the soliloquies reveal internal conflicts a character is facing.

Agenda: 

1. III.i and diagnosing Hamlet (https://adaa.org/iving-with-anxiety/ask-and-learn/screenings/screening-depression#)
2. Hamlet and Ophelia
3. Exit Ticket: What do you think is preventing Hamlet from acting?

Small Daily Task: Keep up with your journaling. 

Day 8 HAMLET

Do Now: Put the events from Act II in order and choose a line or passage that strikes you as significant.

Today's Learning Target:
I will be able to review acts I and II of Hamlet and make a claim about Hamlet's first three soliloquies.
I will know that I have hit the learning target when...
-I can describe the key events from acts I and II.
-I can compare and contrast Hamlet's first three soliloquies.

Agenda: 

1. Hamlet's speech 
2. Reviewing Act II
3. The third soliloquy
4. Exit Ticket: What is the most memorable part of act two?

Small Daily Task: Continue reading and journaling. The journal entries for your long nonfiction are due 7 February.

Day 7 HAMLET

Pyrrhus slaying Priam.

Do Now: What is the most memorable part of II.ii? Explain why it stands out to you.

Today's Learning Target:
I will be able to make a claim about Hamlet's development in the first two acts of the play and support it with evidence.
I will know that I have hit the learning target when...
-I can trace the transformation of Hamlet from I.ii to II.ii by citing at least three important lines about his actions, thoughts, and speech.
-I can write a claim that uses a subordinating conjunction to show the relationship between Hamlet's initial behavior and how he is behaving now.

Agenda: 

1. II.ii so far
2. II.ii continued
3. So many soliloquies!
4. Exit Ticket: How is Hamlet like Holden?

Small Daily Task: Please add quotations to your journal. I will check your progress on Friday (for a quiz grade). You should have at least eight quotations from your long nonfiction text.