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The Value of Life Thinking Log 2

The Value of Life Thinking Log 2. What does being alive mean to you? How do you assign value to life? What makes life challenging? What makes it worth living? Try to describe a few examples that help show your thinking about how people should value life.

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The Value of Life Thinking Log 2

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  1. The Value of LifeThinking Log 2 What does being alive mean to you? How do you assign value to life? What makes life challenging? What makes it worth living? Try to describe a few examples that help show your thinking about how people should value life.

  2. Hamlet’s Soliloquy “To be, or not to be” • What is a soliloquy? • What prior experience have you had reading plays? • What do you notice about its structure? • What do you know about language in plays written by Shakespeare? • The soliloquy begins with a famous quotation “To be, or not to be – that is the question.” What is “the question” that Hamlet is asking?

  3. Hamlet’s Soliloquy “To be, or not to be” Background At this point in the play, Hamlet feels that he is in crisis. His father died a few months earlier under mysterious circumstances. Hamlet discovers that his father was secretly murdered by Hamlet’s uncle, Claudius. Making things even worse, Claudius then married Hamlet’s mother. Hamlet doesn’t know what to do with this knowledge. He wonders if he can trust anyone or if perhaps he is going crazy.

  4. Hamlet’s Soliloquy “To be, or not to be” Reread the text to yourself. Using a highlighter, highlight places in the text where Hamlet describes what it means to be alive. Example: In lines 2-3, he describes life as “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.”

  5. Hamlet’s Soliloquy “To be, or not to be” Compare your highlights to those of a classmates. Find a few examples that you both marked. Place a + by the highlight if the example shows a positive outlook on life and a – if the example shows a negative outlook on life. Example: “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” This would have a – because it compares being alive to being under attack. Is Hamlet optimistic or pessimistic?

  6. Hamlet’s Soliloquy “To be, or not to be” Working with your partners, choose three of your highlighted samples and paraphrase them. Example: “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” may be paraphrased to – Hamlet compares being alive to having fate shoot arrows at you.

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