Hamlet by William Shakespeare

IOC OUTLINE: 

INTRODUCTION: BRIEFLY, What is important about this passage? (Why was it chosen?) What key ideas does it capture (about characters, relationships, themes, etc.)? What is the context of the passage (where does it fit in the play?)

BODY (PART 1): THE PASSAGE: Discuss what is important about this passage. Consider the following:

a)      What does it reveal about character(s)?

b)      What does it reveal about theme(s)?

c)      Discuss the literature devices in the passage (Metaphors, allusions, personification, imagery, etc.)

BODY (PART 2): THE CONTEXT: Discuss how your passage fits into the overall story. Consider the following:

a)      How is it crucial to the flow of the plot?

b)      “Character development.” How did the character(s) get to this point? What does the passage confirm, refute, etc. what you’ve witnessed so far with these characters?

c)      Larger themes (big underlying ideas) of the story. For example, does it connect with the theme of jealousy? Revenge? Deception? Delusion? Love?

d)      Language: Are there metaphors, symbols or images in your passage that “echo” earlier ones?

CONCLUSION: Possibilities: What does it all add up to? ESSENTIALLY, why out of all the passages in the act did you think this one was picked? Perhaps choose a final quotation from the passage and explain how it sums up what's most important about the passage.

What Literary techniques do I look for in my excerpt?

• Different types of imagery: e.g. disease/heaven and earth/references to death
• Tragic elements
• Verse, free verse, prose
• Foreshadowing
• Use of double entendres/puns
• Use of asides/soliloquies
• Symbolism
• Metaphors/similes /personification
• Sounds/alliteration/ assonance/sibilance
• Allusions, biblical or mythology
• Use of minor characters
• Contrasts
• Entrances/exits
• Characterization/relationship between characters/changes in character
• Setting

Read more: http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/articles/27057.aspx#ixzz1bbApvCjV

Act 1 Scene Two

This man Claudius. Sorry, King Claudius.

Consider Claudius' monologue.Do you agree with King his reasoning? What do you think about his actions as revealed in this scene?

Act1 scene 1.

1. Define Setting.
2. Consider the when and where (illustrate from the scene). What atmosphere is created by the setting of this scene.You can find a modern text version here
3. What questions do you have at the end of this scene? Predict what will happen in the next scene. Post your questions and predictions as comments.

World Lit Assignment, then What?

One year down. Now you are working on your World Literature Assignment. Congratulations for the Excellent Job done in keeping your Dialectical Journal and completing the novel Like Water for Chocolate. In the next week we shall devote 4 out of the 5 lessons for the study of Shakespeare's Hamlet and 1 lesson for you to work on the your World Literature Assignment.

Remember that you can only use Houseboy  by Oyono for your World Lit 2 assignment. Good luck

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