Christmas Break Work

Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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3C1

Over the Break Work:

Read up to page 119 in Chapter 6 and have all the questions completed

When we return:

1.  Finish the novel

2. Culminating #2 - Writing - Thursday January 12

3.  Test - West Side Story - Friday January 20

4.  Exam Preparation

4U1

Over the Break work:

1. Read and complete questions up to Act IV, scene vi.  If you have been doing your reading you as you should, you should be be read up to Act IV, scene ii.  Remember, Act IV of Shakespeare deals with the forces against the tragic hero.

2.  Work on ISU and practice your presentation.

Package that will be submitted will include (in this order):

1.  3  Metacognition Questions (following MLA student information/submission format)
2.  Works Cited page for your article
3.  Minimum of 4 completed Note Cards
4.  Copy of your chosen article (with evidence of highlighting and notes)

When we return: 

1. Presentations are from Wednesday January 11 to Friday January 13 (approx. 10 presentations a day)

2. Review of Act IV

3. Read IV.vii and V.i and ii

4. Exam Preparation

Christmas Week!

3C1

Mon - Culminating #1,  review of Chapter 3

Tues - Chapter 4/Setting Note

Wed - Chapter 4 and 5

Thurs - Watch part 1 of WSS

Fri - Christmas Reading Schedule for West Side Story


4U1

Mon - ISU Introduction and Parameters

Tues - ISU Work Period in Library

Wed - Watch III-IV.ii of Hamlet

Thursday - Hamlet Test on Acts I-III, correct IV.i and ii

Friday - ISU reminders and Christmas Reading Schedule for Hamlet

Weekend Homework

3C1

Have read up to page 71 of West Side Story and completed all the questions up to that point

Monday is our first culminating activity

4U1

Have read up to IV.ii of Hamlet and completed all questions up to that point.

Go straight to the library on Monday for ISU introduction

Wed Dec 14 - Fri Dec 16

3C1
-correct and take up chapter 1

Homework
-read and answer questions for chapter 2, pages 34-42

Thurs
-read 42-55

Fri
-note on setting
-chapter 3

Mon
-culminating #1

4U1
-in class writing assignment

Thurs
-correct III.i, read III.ii and iii

Fri
-read III.iv and IV.i

Mon and Tues 
-ISU in library

Wed
-watch and correct III

Thursday 
-Hamlet Quest (half quiz//half test)
-correct IV.i

Fri
-IV

Monday Dec 13, Tues Dec 14

3C1

By the end of Tuesday you should have read and answered questions for chapter 1 of West Side Story and completed vocabulary work sheet, group #1, 2 and 3

4U1

Monday - finished up analysis of II.ii ( note and corrected worksheet)

Tuesday - III.i (read and answer the questions)

Wednesday - in class writing assignment

What to review?

1.  Your note on soliloquy
2.  Rhetorical Devices Definition Sheet
3.  Critical Approaches - moral, archetypal, feminist & psychoanalytical. 

II.ii - Meet Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and 4U1 Weekend Homework

Good friends of Hamlet (university buddies)
Sent for in 'haste'
Asked if they are aware of Hamlet's 'transformation' or change: King wonders if it is more than just his father's death

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Plan: Hang out with him, find out what 'afflicts' him and how to 'remedy' it and report back to the K&Q

Queen says that Hamlet talks of the much (he likes them) and they are welcome to stay at the castle for as long as it takes

R&G agree and King says he will reward them with a "King's remembrance" for any info for the above

They are minor characters with a major role.  So far...


For weekend homework:

Read up to II.ii.420 (the appearance of the actors) and do the corresponding questions (question sheet handed out on Friday)

Writing assignment on Wednesday

Review - note on soliloquy and your rhetorical devices - both will be needed

Thurs Dec 8 and Fri Dec 9

3C1
-Romeo and Juliet tie up

Starting Monday
-West Side Story

4U1
-finish up review of Act I
-Read Act II.i, beginning of II.ii and fill in the general sneakiness chart

Friday
-continue with II.ii - it's a doozy

*remember - writing assignment after Act II, test after Act III

Queen B

Hamlet Act I, scene v - Follow up Questions

When answering these questions, answer in your own words first, then give the direct quote followed by the MLA citation (Act.scene.line). ie (I.v.27).  If it is longer (I.v.27-35).   

1. What has Denmark  been told was the cause of King Hamlet's death?

2. How was King Hamlet really killed? What animal does he compare Claudius to? Why is this apt?  Look up the archetype of said animal.  How is it a Biblical allusion?  How does this comparison fit on many levels both as an archetype and an allusion?

3. Horatio and Marcellus show their loyalty to Hamlet by swearing not to tell anyone about the appearance of the ghost.  What risks are there in this? Why do you think they choose to follow him?

4. Reread lines 170-182.  What is Hamlet saying?

Hammy and the Ghost

Weekend Homework - Dec 2

3C1
-work on timeline and character review for Romeo and Juliet
-test on Tuesday!

4U1
-read and answer questions for Hamlet Act I, scene iv (make sure all answers are complete for scenes i through iv)