3.2 Continued

February 12, 2019

RL.11-12.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly engaging.

RL.11-12.7 Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem, evaluating how each version interprets the source text. 

Obj: I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in Hamlet and analyze the impact of specific word choices and how they depict the human condition.

I can analyze multiple interpretations of Hamlet and evaluate how each source is interpreted.

Starter

Compare this painting to what you imagined while we read.

Then, compare it to the BBC version that we watched. 

Daniel Maclise's 1842 painting The Play-scene in Hamlet depicts the scene in which Hamlet has arranged for Claudius to watch a re-enactment of the murder of Hamlet's father. William Makepeace Thackeray reviewed Maclise's painting for Ainsworth's Magazine in 1842. He described the picture as follows:

Fancy Hamlet, ungartered, lying on the ground, looking into the very soul of King Claudius, who writhes under the play of Gonzago. Fancy the Queen, perplexed and sad, (she does not know of the murder,) and poor Ophelia, and Polonius, with his staff, pottering over the tragedy; and Horatio, and all sorts of knights and ladies, looking wondering on. Fancy, in the little theatre, the king asleep; a lamp in front casts a huge forked fantastic shadow over the scene--a shadow that looks like a horrible devil in the background that is grinning and aping the murder. Fancy ghastly flickering tapestries of Cain and Abel on the walls, and all this painted with the utmost force, truth, and dexterity--fancy all this, and then you will have not the least idea of the most startling, wonderful pictures that the English school has ever produced.

*http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/art_of_hamlet.html

Vocabulary

Word: Idiom

Part of Speech: Noun

Dictionary Definition:  an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either grammatically (such as no, it wasn't me) or in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements 

Your definition: 

Activity: Create or find an example of an idiom.

Activity

1.  Your Production

Create your own adaptation of 3.2.96-317.

You may work in groups of 5-6 people.

You will have a 20 minute planning period to create the script for the reenactment.

• Cast the parts. 
• Describe the setting.
• Determine how you will portray Hamlet, Ophelia, Claudius, Gertrude and the Players.
• (Consider movement, facial expressions, key lines, etc.)
• Create the script.
• Include two examples of figurative language in your script.
• Your skit should only be between 2-3 minutes long. 

2.Read Act Three, Scene Three-Four

Claudius

Rosencrantz

Guildenstern

Polonius 

Hamlet

Gertrude

Ghost

Discussion Question

Use indirect characterization to analyze Claudius.

Summarize Hamlet's reaction.

Describe your reaction to the scene between Hamlet and Polonius.

Characterize Gertrude based on the conversation between her and Hamlet.

Evaluate Hamlet's current mental state.

Evaluate the role of the ghost.

How is figurative language utilized throughout the act?

3.  BBC Hamlet Production

As a class, we will watch the scenes we read.

Pay close attention to the way Hamlet is characterized in the movie compared to the text.

Jot down notes about what is similar and different to what you imagined.

We will discuss this as a class.

Closure

Complete a reading log entry for act three.