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WEEK 11 SLIDES. HAMLET. How does dealing with internal conflict help us grow as individuals?. YOUR THOUGHTS. What you want to continue Book talks Choice reading. YOUR THOUGHTS. What you want increased Reading time Projects. YOUR THOUGHTS. What you want clarified Website Assignments
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HAMLET How does dealing with internal conflict help us grow as individuals?
YOUR THOUGHTS • What you want to continue • Book talks • Choice reading
YOUR THOUGHTS • What you want increased • Reading time • Projects
YOUR THOUGHTS • What you want clarified • Website Assignments • Due dates
LONG-TERM GOALS To prepare students for ACT To improve writing skills To create a love of literature
SHORT-TERM GOALS • First Quarter • Introduce a variety of books • Create an environment of learners • Provide opportunities for writing • Streamline study skills (notes)
SHORT-TERM GOALS • Second Quarter • Read and enjoy Shakespeare • Encourage reading of many types of books • Analyze drama
FIRST SEMESTER • READING AND WRITING PRACTICE • BOOK LOVE • PREPARE FOR ACT
RENAISSANCE MAN • What did you learn about Hamlet from this movie? • What the play is about • How the play applies to today
RENAISSANCE PERIOD • What do you already know?
RENAISSANCE PERIOD • What do the scholars say?
RENAISSANCE PERIOD • What do you wonder?
RESEARCH the “bard”
AGENDA Choice reading British Literature Presentations Renaissance Research Sharing
RESEARCH the “bard”
AGENDA Website Assignment Choice Reading Shakespeare Research
RESEARCH SHARE WHAT YOU LEARNED
Renaissance Authors William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Hamlet, 1601 Thomas Kyd (1558-1594) The Spanish Tragedy, 1587 John Milton, (1608-1674) Paradise Lost, 1667
INTRODUCTION TO HAMLET Probably written in 1601 The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke (included in First Folio of 1623) The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke (Second Quarto of 1604) Second Quarto – “good” Quarto
According to Sigmund Freud Hamlet has within him an unresolved Oedipus Complex, a sexual desire for his mother that prevents him from taking decisive action against the man who has done in reality the thing that Hamlet unconsciously desires to do: kill his father and marry his mother.
POLITICAL AGENDA Hamlet hides within himself a spirit of political resistance, a subversive challenge to a corrupt, illegitimate regime shored up by lies, spies, and treachery. James I of Scotland, reigned 1603-1625 Queen Elizabeth, reigned 1558-1603
BASIC PLOT SEQUENCE Hamlet, a young man, is in mourning for his father Despair and bitterness earmark Hamlet’s attitude toward his mother’s hasty marriage to his uncle The Ghost of Hamlet’s father reveals to Hamlet that his Uncle Claudius killed his father Hamlet tortures himself with indecision: Did his uncle really kill his father?