Thursday, October 2 Hamlet- questions on Act I...library

Due tomorrow: Hamlet vocabulary 2 assessment.

Below is a copy of the handout you were given upon entering the computer lab. This is for those who are absent.  Everyone in class should refer to their handout.

English III Directions for day 2 in the library.

The purpose of today’s assignment to review ActI, specifically looking at important parts of dialogue.

As well, you are demonstrating your technology skills in sending along the completed assignment as an attachment. You may use your personal or school e-mail. There is no hard copy handout.

1)      Please sit at your teacher-assigned computer.

2.      Log on and go to the blog: http://english3-14-15.blogspot.com

3.      Open up a word document.

4.      Read and respond to the questions on the blog, making sure to use complete sentences.

5.      When you have completed the assignment, send along as an attachment to my school address: Dolly.Parker@rcsdk12.org.

6.      This is a silent assignment. If you have questions, please raise your hand and Ms. Bowering or myself will assist you.

             

                                   Class work: please respond to the following on a word document. If you wish, copy and paste the question.  Begin with an MLA heading. Please respond in complete sentences.

1. Explain the following exchange between Hamlet and Claudius. KING CLAUDIUS How is it that the clouds still hang on you? HAMLET Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun.               2...Laertes warns his sister Ophelia to "keep...in the rear of [her] affection / Out of the shot and danger of desire." Ophelia tells her brother the following:  I shall the effect of this good lesson keep, As watchman to my heart. But my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads... Paraphrase Ophelia's words in a couple of well-written sentences. 3. Read Polonius' advice to Laertes and make a list of how the father believes his son should behave. LORD POLONIUS Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame! The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, And you are stay'd for. There; my blessing with thee! And these few precepts in thy memory See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. 60 Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, 70 But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that. Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine ownself be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. 4. What news has the ghost imparted to Hamlet in these lines? If thou didst ever thy dear father love-- HAMLET O God! Ghost Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.