ENGLISH 12 November 18 & 19, 2014
AGENDA - 11/18/2014 Collect Exploding A Moment Project Including all drafts, peer editing, & graphic organizer Advancing Vocabulary Unit 1: Chapter 4 Quiz Journal Give back In Cold Blood Essays Essay Edit Notes Rewrite Due: November 25 (NO EXCEPTIONS) Hamlet Intro Guided Notes Homework: Work on your rewrite due 11/25!
WRITING PROMPT CAFETERIA TRIBES 11/18/2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz_qxmxdgg M If you were trying to explain the groups of high school students to a new student, how would you do it? Imagine that you could only classify teenagers into four groups. Consider personality, geographic location in the cafeteria, race, class, intelligence, physical aptitude, and other factors, and then come up with four groups then describe them. Which group would you fall into? Why?
DO NOT DO ANY OF THIS IN YOUR ESSAY! Make personal statements (No 1 st Person!) Ask questions (turn your question into a statement) Apologize for yourself Merely summarise Use colloquial terms or clichés ( back in the day, that s so cool, lol ) Make your thesis a vague general statement Say this paper is about Use vague language (the reader SHOULD NOT have to GUESS what you are trying to say (things, stuff, a lot) Use words you do not confidently know the meaning of Drift away from your topic Introduce new information in your conclusion Use the same words over and over Use contractions (didn t, couldn t) Jump all over the place with your ideas
PLEASE DO THIS IN YOUR ESSAY! Make statements based on facts and write in a confident and decisive tone Use academic language Make your thesis specific and to the point Make your thesis straightforward and easy to understand Stay on topic Vary your language Have clear transitions between paragraphs Beware simple mistakes that the spell-check won t catch (your/you re, there/their/there, for example)
ESSAY EDITS ICB ESSAY SPECIFIC THERE IS NO COMMA BEFORE BECAUSE!!!!! Pictures are HUNG, People are HANGED!!!!!! Absolutely NO 1 st Person or 2 nd Person NO I or YOU statements Choppy Sentences are too short Awk. Phrasing Sentence doesn t make sense as written Fragment Sentence is incomplete Sp? Check spelling Subject/Verb Agreement Sentence needs better subject/verb agreement. Point? What is your point? What are you trying to argue? Summary The book is being summarized instead of proving a point. Spell Out Spell out contractions (don t = do not) Too Conversational You write like you talk. Follow the Format The paragraph/essay does not follow the format of essay writing given in class check your notes! Paragraph The paragraph symbol usually means that you need to start a new paragraph. Move quote up Quotes should be given early on in the body paragraphs in order to prove a point with commentary. Do not put a quote as the last sentence in a paragraph. Quotes? There is no evidence from the book to back up your argument.
REWRITES You will not be able to turn your essay in for the first time. This is only for people that turned in the essay by the final deadline of Friday, November 7. In order to do a rewrite for this essay, you must keep the original packet in tact. If you do not turn this in with your rewritten essay, I will not be able to grade it. You will need to make the corrections I gave you, including any formatting mistakes, in order to receive higher points. If your paper was late, you will get the late points back as well, if you do the rewrite. The rewrite for the In Cold Blood Essay is due November 25, by the end of school that day. There will be no exceptions. If you do not turn in a rewrite, I will assume that you are ok with the grade you received the first time.
WHAT IS COMMUNITY? By the end of this unit, students will be able to develop and apply their definition of COMMUNITY. They will also be able to assess their understanding of community and compare and contrast it to the American communities, as well as those of other cultures. A community is a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common; it also includes the feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.
SHAKESPEARE S HAMLET An Introduction Thug Notes Summary (0-2:38) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a98tf9krihg
A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO HAMLET Hamlet is a play that has fascinated audiences and readers since it was first written in around 1601-1604 The play centers on Hamlet s decision whether or not to avenge the murder of his father, the King of Denmark. This weight of this decision drives all the other action and relationships in the play. Hamlet is part of an old tradition of revenge plays, and is based on an old oral legend about Amleth, a prince whose father was killed by his uncle, who then married his mother. Amleth pretends to be mad, while plotting how to avenge his father s death, and eventually is able to kill his uncle.
WHO AND WHAT IS HAMLET? Critics have read this character as A tragic figure whose flaw is an unwillingness to act A representative of the human psyche (most famously Freud and Jung) A modern individual fighting against the old ways of seeing and being in the world (finding his place in his COMMUNITY) Shakespeare took the basic plotline and created five stories in one! Family Drama An uncle has married the wife of his brother. Love Story Young love is forced apart by circumstance Madness A young prince may or may not have gone mad. Revenge Play death, murder, suicide, ghosts! Political Thriller Who should have the throne?
Political Alliances HAMLET AS POLITICAL SURVIVOR Elsinore = Island Plotting Backstabbing Scheming Real vs. Acting Illicit Hookups Getting voted off Permanently
HAMLET: THE FIRST MODERN MAN? Hamlet is also a play concerned with the question Who Am I? First line of the play Who s there? Is our role in life defined by fate? Family? Our own choices? Are we completely alone in the world, or are we irrevocably tied to others? (What is our place in our COMMUNITY?) Hamlet s struggle with these existential questions has led critics such as Harold Bloom and Freud to suggest that Hamlet is a representation of a fully modern man Able to look at the stupidity, falsity, difficulty and sham of everyday life, without relying on easy answers
KEY THEMATIC QUESTIONS IN HAMLET Revenge vs. Justice What is the difference between revenge and justice? Is one more moral than the other? Does the act of revenge irrevocably change an individual? Action vs. Inaction Is action always virtuous? Is it possible to take action in a world where nothing is ever certain (i.e. morally black and white) Fate vs. Autonomy Do we have control over the shape of our own lives? Are our roles in life always preordained? Appearance vs. Reality Is deceit a fundamental part of the way society functions? Is life a series of parts that we act in order to get by? Is there a truth under all the appearances in our lives?
KEY THEMATIC QUESTIONS IN HAMLET Madness Is insanity just a sane way of reacting to the madness of the world around us? Loyalty and Betrayal What constitutes loyalty? To whom do we owe loyalty? Family? Lovers? Ourselves? (Community?) What happens when loyalties conflict? Old Worlds vs. New Worlds How does one function when caught between two world views? (Evolving the Community) What are the emotional/psychological/physical costs of this struggle?
DRAMATIC DEVICES IN HAMLET Crisis: The moment or event in the plot where the conflict is the most directly addressed; the main character wins or loses; the secret is revealed; the ending of the story becomes inevitable Usually found in Act III Climax (Catastrophe): High point of tension and conflict; marks a major turning point for one or more of the characters Usually found in Act V Literary Devices Review the following literary devices and become familiar with them it will be expected that you know and can refer to them while discussing the play.
FOIL Definition minor character whose attitudes, beliefs, and behavior differ significantly from those of the main character (highlights flaws) Hamlet Horatio is a foil to Hamlet
DRAMATIC IRONY Definition occurs when the results of actions are tragic reverse of what participants think; spectators understand Hamlet when Hamlet and Horatio know that Claudius has killed the King
COMIC RELIEF Definition humorous episode in a tragedy Hamlet the graveyard scene in Act V
ASIDE Definition speech wherein character speaks his thoughts in words to the spectator but supposedly not to the other actors Hamlet "a little more than kin and less than kind Hamlet's first words in the play show him playing with words in order to state a paradox: Claudius is twice related to him, as uncle and stepfather, but not really his kin or kind at all.
OXYMORON Definition is a figure of speech that juxtaposes elements that appear to be contradictory Hamlet "with mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage Claudius has married Gertrude after King Hamlet s death, but said he has done so with a mixture of happiness and sadness.
SIMILE Definition a figure of speech that compares two things that are alike in some way (using like or as ) Hamlet "what a piece of work is man!...how like an angel Hamlet mocks how people think so highly of themselves.
METAPHOR Definition a direct comparison of two things Hamlet when Hamlet calls the world and "unweeded garden Hamlets says: How tired, stale, and pointless life is to me. It s like a garden that no one s taking care of, and that s growing wild. Only nasty weeds grow in it now. I can t believe it s come to this.
HYPERBOLE Definition exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally Hamlet "he would drown the stage with tears/ And cleave the general ear with horrid speech"
PERSONIFICATION Definition the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or ideas Hamlet "For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak/ With most miraculous organ"
ALLITERATION Definition the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words Hamlet "in equal scale weighing delight and dole. (happiness and sadness)
PUN Definition the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words Hamlet Not so my Lord. I am too much in the sun. This is Hamlet's response to the King's question, "How is it that the clouds still hang on you?" He means that the King has called Hamlet "son" once too often.
ALLUSION Definition an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference Hamlet "she followed my poor father's body/ Like Niobe, all tears... Symbolic of a mother's grief. Niobe, Queen of Thebes, boasted that her fourteen children were more lovely than Diana and Apollo, the children of Latona (Leto). Because of her arrogance, Niobe's children were slain by Latona's children, and Zeus turned Niobe to stone - yet still her tears flowed from the rock.