Thursday, January 9, 2020

Thursday

Today we are going to talk about trip work, Poetry Out Loud, and Act 1 of Hamlet.  There will be a quiz on Act 1 tomorrow.  If we have left over time we will begin Act 2 (as Act 2 is long). 

POETRY OUT LOUD


The POL competition is on Wednesday 1/29 at 6:30 pm on the school stage.  This is a requirement.  You must have a poem memorized and ready to perform.  This is also an easy grade:

50 points for the memorization
30 points for showing up to the performance
20 points for the acting of the poem.

The winner of POL receives a $50 gift certificate to The Smoothie Shop and has a chance to go the State Championship in March.

Here is a link to the POL judging guidelines
This rubric is also how you will be graded on the "acting" portion.

Poetry Out Loud website can be found here

Tips for performance can be found here
 
 
 
 
ACT II Study Questions 

  1. What is does Polonius tell Reynaldo in the opening of Act II?  How does he plan to trap his son?








  1. What does this say about Polonius?







  1. What particularly in Act II scene 1 has disturbed Ophelia?






  1. Why have Rosencrantez and Guildenstern been sent to Denmark?








  1. What does Hamlet ask the players to recite?  How does the allusion mimic Hamlet’s position?







Identify the following speaker of the following lines and discuss to whom the lines are being delivered, and what do the lines mean?

  1. “No, my lord, but as you did command/ I did repel his letter, and denied his access to me”




  1. “More matter less art”





  1. “That I, the son of a dear father murdered,/ Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell/ Must like a whore unpack my heart with words,





  1. “Your bait of falsehood take this carp of truth/ And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,/ with windlasses and with assays of bias,/ By directions find directions out.”




  1. “For if the sun breeds maggots in a dead dog, being a good kissing carrion-Have you a daughter?”





  1. List three metaphors (1 direct, 1 implied, 1 extended) from the play.





  1. What proof does Polonius have that he believe indicates Hamlet’s love for Ophelia?  


  1. Explain the quote, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”  How does this relate to Hamlet.









  1. What is a fishmonger?






15) Who was Jephthah?

 

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