Semester Test Week!

This is what the week looks like, my Shakespeare friends:

You have one final assignment for my class - on Friday by 2:00, post a "Top 10 List of Things I Learned in Shakespeare this Semester" on your blog - make me smile, please :)

Monday: Presentations for Shakespeare Projects

Tuesday: Presentations for Shakespeare Projects

Wednesday: Finish up Presentations

Thursday: No class - good luck on your other exams, presentations and projects!

Friday: ???  Come to class - you will see!

Wednesday, December 14th!

Journal Prompt:

There is a lot goin' down at the castle in Elsinore.  Drama.  Death.  Destruction. 
Your task for this journal prompt is to write an article (think Rita Skeeter from Harry Potter - think National Enquirer) that discusses the happenings with Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, Polonius and the gang.  And remember - scandal sells magazines, crew.  Be creative!

- Shall we finish Act IV and take a quiz?  Why, yes.  We shall!

Hamlet and Ophelia - two crazy lovers...
and we mean that literally.
Photo taken from Google Images

     

Happy Monday!

Journal Prompt:

Hamlet is in a constant struggle between action and inaction.  One is not particularly superior to the other because the world is made up of "thinkers" and "doers" - the world needs both in order to function.  What would you consider yourself - a thinker or a doer?  Why?  Use your genre sheet!

The plan for the rest of the week is to finish the play so that next week you can watch the film and memorize those lines for your recitation!  Over the break, you should be memorizing and should know your recitation by heart upon your return from break!  Perform it for your grandparents while they visit - perform it for your dog before you go to bed at night -  I don't care!  Just learn those lines!

To be or not to be?

Basketball people!  Make sure that you post you "To be or not to be" blog before you leave tomorrow!  Best of luck this weekend!

Today, my friends...we are going to attempt to get through Act III.  Finally.  Brace yourselves.

Also, make sure that you get me your monologue or sonnet or whatever you plan to recite in January!  I needa know by tomorrow!

Photo taken from Google Images

"The play's the thing..."

A couple things:

1. Make sure that by this Friday, you get your monologue or sonnet in so that I can see what you will be reciting in January - and get to memorizing those lines!

2. Everyone will have the same journal this week - we are rewriting Hamlet's "To be or not to be" monologue in modern-day language.

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Journal Prompt: Rewrite the first ten lines of Hamlet's "To be or not to be" monologue.

We will begin Act III Scene 2 today! 

"To be or not to be...

...that is the question."

Ethan Hawke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YHMYkUrV7A

Kenneth Branagh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7740lGif65Y

David Tennant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzuEKkPVeBQ&feature=related

Mel Gibson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZtGzBT7mFU

I couldn't find Jude Law's speech - sorry, ladies :(

"It's Friday, Friday..."

Ze Plan:

-Take Act II Quiz

-Read through Act III Scene 1 (the plot thickens...)

-Watch a bit o' Mel Gibson

-HAVE AN OUTSTANDING WEEKEND! (and take pictures at Winter Formal so I can see y'all decked out in your tuxedos and dresses!)