Hamlet Act 2

ACT 1 fishbowl question

Is Laertes Hamlet's foil? Why or why not?

October 23rd, Friday

Discussion of Act I moved to Monday, October 26^th.

***IMPORTANT***

Live Blog with Lovett Private School in Atlanta Georgia ( lovett.org for more information.)

(Smith is competitive) Dominating with our thoughts.

November 16 Act 3 Fishbowl (Now a live blog with Private School)

Half way through 2^nd hour dismissed for live blog

No later than 8:50am

Talk to teachers ASAP! (Before next Friday)

Come to Normal Classroom

Be here and be set up by 8:55 am

December 9 End of Play

PLC Day

8:55-9:55am

You will miss first hour. (talk to your Teacher ASAP!)

Be in normal room at 8:45am

if you want to help set up come at 8:35-8:40am

***END OF IMPORTANCE***

Finish Act I. Alexa as Polonius. Eva as Ophelia. Kyle as Hamlet. Alex as Horatio. Tim as Marcellus. Nick as the Ghost. (he has a creepy voice :O)

Hamlet guilt tripped into helping ghost.

“If you loved me you will avenge me!”

Serpent

Represented as ultimate evil in the perfect garden that Denmark was before the King's murder

Sign up for parts on Act II:

Polonius- Kayli

reynaldo- Lauryn S

Ophelia- Rachel

King- Addie

Queen- Kayla

Rosencrantz- Sarah

Guildenstern- Louise

Voltemand- Maddie

Hamlet- Jeremy

First Player- Daniel

Watched clip of Ghost scene in kenneth version, as well as Hamlet's grieving soliloquy.

Act I quiz monday!

Hamlet Act 1

Oct. 19. 2009

Scribe Notes: October 19, 2009

The Plan for Today:

• comparing the opening scenes

• Reading Act One through Scene 3 (Characters were assigned last Wednesday:see previous post)
  

  • What are your impressions of Hamlet, Claudius and Gertrude?

• Watched three versions of the opening scenes of Hamlet and wrote about our impressions and what we think is going on.....Really bad special effects involved.

  • Take notes.

Overall, a simple day. Just make sure you're up to date on Hamlet and know whats going on. If you are presenting in the fischbowl on Friday make sure you have a syllabus prepared for Smith when first come into class. If you are discussing, or if you are blogging try to know what is going on. :)

scribe 10/14/09 Daniel Brus

Today we have a short day. It is donut Wednesday but no one is signed up so no donuts. :(
Ms. Smith is allowing us to read Hamlet for the first section of Hamlet. Ms. Smith set us up with parts for Act 1:
Bernardo-Anthony Dillon
Fran-Sean Bull
Marc-Tim
Horatio-Alex Barker
Hamlet-Kyle
Gertrude (Queen)-Jenna
Claudius (King)-Adam Blank
Cornelius/ Voltemand-Alexa
Laertes-John
Polonius-Andrew
Ophelia- Eva
Ghost-Nick
These are the parts that will be played and by whom in act 1 on Monday.

Ms. Smith then allowed us to get our groups together for the fishbowl. She told us to exchange emails. She also told us to try to get phone numbers so that we can communicate. Period ended early due to PSAT.

Today we continued to watch the movie Beowulf. We are doing a project on this movie vs. the epic poem starting Wednesday and continuing Friday this week. Be sure to look for elements to compare and contrast that relate to the questions
-How does Beowulf fit the cultural ideal of the middle ages?
-How is Beowulf and epic hero?

September 28th

We said the pledge. Attempted to listen to the announcements by getting blurbs of conversation.
Have notes for the Cantos through 8. (These were done on Friday in class)
FIRE DRILLLLLLL (for five minutes)
During our fire drill we took a leisurely walk as we contemplated the fact that Mrs. Smith was not in the room when we were supposed to be evacuating in case of fire. We all burned to death. Class was canceled..... One can dream.... Onwards with class....

Wednesday- Quiz on cantos 1-11
Friday- Start watching Beowulf
Reviewing notes from Friday

In groups pick a topic based on Cultural Ideals
Animism-fate-Celtic
Christianity
Women
Scops
Loyalty/Bravery
Epic hero qualities
Good vs Evil
Purpose of 1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8
15 minutes to make poster about one of the above MAD RUSH FOR TOPICS! WARNING: AVOID CHALKBOARD AT ALL COSTS
Group Time: choose your groups, topic and color. Make posters with a pretty picture on your topic.
During this time Smith periodically called out the amount of time remaining in an annoyed tone because we don't participate in class except for in creative poster making time.
Pretty Posters have been hung up on wall. Took notes based on them.
NOTES FROM POSTERS

Women
Watch Women's power in the movie and the story
Welthow
Women servitude

Christianity
Unification of people through belief in Christianity
Beowulf feels God is protecting him
Many references to Gods

Epic hero
Embody qualities and characteristics of his surroundings
Beowulf embodies Geats and their civilization
Strongest
Boastful
difference between Tragic and Epic
Epic does it for his people
understand difference
Loyalty to their ruler

Good vs Evil
Good has been taken over by evil (Grendel)
Grendel faces good and is fearful
Beowulf symbol for good
Grendel symbol for evil

Loyalty/Bravery
Beowulf shows respect to his king
Beowulf has to repay debt
People stay close to leader even when in fear

Canto
1-3- Despair of people
4-5- Arrival of Hero
6-7- Unfurth and the battle with Brecca
Set up as foil
Set up against to show more challenges, issues, how good of a warrior Beowulf is
8- Battle with Grendel starts
Epic qualities of Beowulf shown
End of Notes

Read Cantos 9,10,11. Starts on page 34.
Think about questions on page 38 to help ready you for the quiz on Wednesday.

Scribe 9 - 16 - 09

We turned in our college essays at the beginning of class.

We also decided that we are not going to present our scene modernizations today but we are going to on Friday instead. Our in class essay that was supposed to be on Friday has now turned into our homework for tonight and is due next Monday.

Oedipus Essay Notes:

-Tragic Hero
1) Nobility- "Oedipus, ruler of Thebes" (2) Explain
2)
3)
4)

-Hero's Journey
1) Innocence "Why are you here?" (1) Explain
No clue, plague, role in death

-Dramatic irony- audience knows, character does not
1) keeps plot interesting, engaging Example: explain
2) Plot moves along Example: explain
3) Example: explain

We had the entire hour to start working on our Oedipus essay and our only homework is to work on our essay.

Scribe 9/11

TODAY! GO SENIORS!
we worked on our little Oedipus the King via performance, and reviewing posters
We have a blue packet that we need to go by for the skit, and it's worth 150 points so you better do good!

Ms smith emphasized that we must be safe this weekend.
Instead of any bad drinks, you should mix sprite with orange juice, and stuff like that.
Don't do anything smith wouldn't do this weekend!!!!~!

Homework: writing conference, and final paper.
HAVE A SAFE HOMECOMING!
GO SENIORS!!!