Unit goal: How do we develop close reading and analysis/comprehension skills that help us read (and as a result, increase our enjoyment in reading) in school and in everyday life, using the play Hamlet as the focus text?
Begin class - review our reading strategies list from yesterday (5 min):
What are effective reading strategies we use both in school and in our everyday lives?
Please take note in your journals as we brainstorm together.
- Re-read
- Slow down
- Skip ahead
- Use context clues
- Annotate - highlight, underline, write in the margins
- Ask questions
- Paraphrase
- Grasp on to what you know
- Visualize
- Metacognition - "thinking about your thinking"
Break into groups from yesterday to finish paraphrasing activity (15 minutes)
Class activity: Act 5.2 graphic organizer - complete by the end of class! (15 minutes)
Act
5.2 Questions
1.
What
does Laertes mean when he says, “the treacherous instrument is in thy hand, /
Unbated and envenomed” (lines 317–318)?
2. What does Hamlet do after he says, “Then,
venom, to thy work”? Use the stage direction for context.
3. Before Laertes dies, what does he request of
Hamlet?
4. What does Hamlet mean when he responds,
“Heaven make thee free of it” (line 333)?
5. Why does Hamlet ask Horatio to “Absent
[himself] from felicity a while” in line 348?
A tragic resolution involves
a reversal of fortune and the resolution of previously unresolved conflicts.
6. Why is Hamlet a tragic hero?
7. What aspect of Hamlet’s character leads to
his downfall?
8. Why is the resolution to the play defined as
“tragic”?
*IF YOU ARE ABSENT, complete these questions and turn in to Ms. Bowering!
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