Trial Prep and Act V

Use this link today to pose deposition questions for witnesses you plan to call during your trial.

For homework, write anticipated responses for each question you intend to ask.  Use quotes from each character to support your responses.

It's time to act!  Read Act V and see how a play about the inability to decide finally resolves itself.  Here is your note and quote sheet.

HW for Thursday

Hamlet Trial Preparation

Attorneys - select two quotes from possible witnesses you would call at trial.  The quotes should be relevant to the charges in the case

Judges -  select one quote for a possible witness for the defense and one quote for a possible witness for the prosecution that you think relate well to the charges in the case

Poetry Quiz #4 Thursday

On Thursday, you will have your fourth poetry quiz.  You may use your TPCASTT and Strategies Sheets during the quiz on Thursday.

Please visit our new Google Doc AP Lit Dictionary and add an example and/or explanation to one of the rhythm and rhyme words we discussed today.  We'll continue to build on this dictionary as long as everyone contributes.

We are going to shift our focus to prose soon, so please continue to take advantage of this time to focus your poetry preparation.  You should continue to develop your plan for close reading poetry under timed conditions on the exam.  Next week, you will be writing your first in-class essay in response to a poem.

Act IV

For next Tuesday, please read Act IV and TAKE NOTES using this link.  I was disappointed to find that many of you have failed to value the note taking aspect of close reading.  I am not asking a lot of you to summarize and collect quotes as you read, so come to class on Tuesday prepared.

Poetry Quiz Prep

We are going to pause on our Hamlet reading this week.  On Wednesday, we'll discuss and view scenes from the remainder of Act III.

Please use the Poetry Quiz stems I gave you today to prepare handwritten anticipated responses to the stems for Wednesday's quiz.

Hamlet Act III

1) Please read Act III over the weekend and use this link to guide your summary and quote gathering.


Lastly, for your EXAM-PREP section in your notebook:
2) Use the multiple choice strategies I gave you in class to analyze five questions from today's poetry quiz.  For each of the five questions, identify three strategies that help you answer correctly.

A BIG THANK YOU TO THOSE OF YOU WHO BROUGHT PROPS AND COSTUMES FOR US TO BORROW.  IF YOU HAVEN'T DONE SO, PLEASE CONSIDER BRINGING SOMETHING TO ADD NEXT WEEK.

Hamlet Act II

Please read Act II for Thursday and take summary/wrong deed notes as you read using this form.

Thursday we'll have our second poetry quiz.  Review TPCASTT.

Lastly, please bring a prop or costume that you wouldn't mind leaving in class for us to use for the remainder of our Hamlet study.

Hamlet and Literary Interpretation Papers

Hamlet Act I Reading 

Over the weekend, please read Hamlet Act I (aloud) and use this form to write short scene summaries and take notes on characters whose behavior might be considered suspicious.  Bring the completed form to class on Tuesday.

If you would like to read an ebook version of the play, you can download one for FREE here.

Literary Interpretation Paper

Your grade for your literary interpretation paper will be posted today on Skyward.  If you are not satisfied with the grade you earned, please complete the following before January 21st:

Step 1 - Complete your Google Document reflection.
Step 2 - Below your reflection, demonstrate that you have acted on the feedback you received on the paper.  (Example - If I suggested that you were missing a Level 3 commentary section on a body paragraph, you need to write one and place it in your Google Doc)
Step 3 - Attend an opportunity period to discuss your paper, reflection, and feedback action.

Welcome back

For Friday, you'll need to complete the following:

1) A Few Readings 
Read the How to Read Literature Like a Professor chapter on Shakespeare and intertextuality.  Annotate sections that will help us with our reading of Hamlet that you would like to discuss.

Use TPCASTT to read and annotate “J. Alfred Prufrock” and select a passage that you’d like to discuss with the class.   

2) Literary Interpretation Reflection
2-paragraph Google Doc self-assessment and reflection on strengths and challenges in research papers is due next class.  Log in to Turnitin.com to view my comments.  On the last page, you'll see a comment that contains your strengths and challenges.  If you received feedback on challenges you face with analytic body paragraph writing, you need to be sure to address those in your reflection.