Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Today we began class by watching a scene from Hamlet that included another version of Ophelia's scene when she goes insane. After watching the video we spent the rest of the hour completing our Act 3 and Act 4 quiz. The quiz was pretty easy, in my opinion, as long as you studied and reviewed both acts. That was all we did in class today. Also we moved the Act 5 Fishbowl to Monday, December 12th. So be sure to prepare for the fishbowl if you are in the presenting group. Our homework today was pretty much nothing, except if you are in the presenting group for the Act 5 Fishbowl. If you are in the presenting group, your homework is to do the syllabus, blog question and critical analysis for Act 5 and come prepared for the fishbowl on December 12th.

11/28/11 Scribe

11/28/11

Sean Brought Us Some Doughnuts!!!!! YOU ROCK SEAN!!!!!!

Homework

· Blog post response due Wednesday

· Huge quiz on Acts 3-4

Class work

· Fishbowl Act 4

· Everyone else did live blog

Act 4 Question

Was Shakespeare proving yet again that women are just weak and useless by showing the difference between how Ophelia and Laertes reacted to the death of their father? or Was their something else he was trying to show in this dramatic change in Laertes and Ophelia's reactions.

Hamlet Act 4 Fishbowl

Friday, November 18, 2011

Friday, November 18, 2011

In class:

Discussed Act 4 Scene 1- 4

· Honorability

· Action vs. inaction (Fortinbras, Hamlet, Laertes, Ophelia)

Read Act 4 scene 5-7

· Important events

o Ophelia drowns

o Hamlet sends letters of his plan to come back

Watched Scenes with Ophelia

HW:

· fishbowl act 4 group meet

o critical review

o syllabus

o blog question post

· Prepare for fishbowl

Monday (11/28) after break:

· In class

o Fishbowl Act 4

o Scribe

· HW

o Study for quiz act 3 and 4

o Blog Question Act 4

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Today in class,

We watched the two different films of Hamlet from the scene where Hamlet is yelling at his mother Gertrude and stabs Polonius, and compared and contrasted them.

• The first one we watched (Mel Gibson), to the class it seemed like the ghost was more "real". Also that Hamlet was much more angry with his mother and was yelling a lot more. This film also shows more incest like when Gertrude gets Hamlet to shut up by kissing him.


• The second one we watched, was more emotional, it seemed like Hamlet was much more emotional when he was talking to the ghost, other than that they were very similar.

We started reading Act 4 after that.

• We read Scene 1,2, and 3, and will finish Act 4 on Friday. If we finish Act 4 on Friday our Act 4 fishbowl will be Monday, November 28th, the Monday after Thanksgiving break, so don't forget and be prepared.

Is there a point that you believe that Hamlet has truly lost his sanity in Act 3? Or do you believe that he is still sane, and acting in a very calculated manor?