Hamlet Unit Plan: First Three Weeks

	Monday	Tuesday	Block Period	Friday
9/21-9/25	Intro to Hamlet Stand where you Stand	Shakespeare in Performance HW: Read Horatio Monologue for Block Period	Act One Scene One: Who's There Claudius, Obama, Reagan HW: Finish College Essays	Act One Scene 2: A Dysfunctional Family Hamlet's first Soliloquy College Essay Due
9/28-10/2	Act One Scene Three: The Other Family Advice to Ophelia Advance Retreat Maneuver HW: Read Act 1 Scene 4	Act 1 Scene 5: Conversing with the Dead Hamlet's 2nd Soliloquy	Act 2 Scene 1 Ophelia and the Closet: Strange Behavior The Long Act 2: Mad Acting Advance Retreat Maneuver "I Have of Late" Analysis	Hamlet’s 3rd Soliloquy Analysis
10/5-10/9	Collect Acts 1 and 2 Study Guide. Act 3 Scene 1 "To Be or Not to Be" Speech Analysis HW: Read Advice to the Players	Review To Be or Not to Be Hamlet's Treatment of Ophelia Act 3 Scene 2: The Play within the Play Scene	Act 3 Scene 3: Revenge Attempt Claudius’s Soliloquy Reflective Write Up #5 Act 3 Scene 4: The Climax of the Play	The Fallout Act 4 Scenes 1 and 2 Video Clips!

Medieval Literature Unit Test Review

For the unit test on Friday, make sure you have read the Wife of Bath's Tale. Also make sure that you know the significance of the following texts: Beowulf, The Wanderer, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Canterbury Tales.

A list of terms and ideas you want to be familiar with are as follows:

• Prose
• Verse
• Alliteration
• Elegiac
• Anglo-Saxons
• Britons
• Romans
• Normans
• Old English
• Middle English
• Great Chain of Being
• Feudalism
• The year 1066
• Thomas Becket
• 100 Years War
• War of the Roses
• Iambic Pentameter
• Couplet
• Heroic Couplet
• Chivalry
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification

Canterbury Tales Prologue Assignment

Write an intro to the 30^th member of the Canterbury Tales crew. Your character can be yourself, or any other person of interest (such as Beowulf, Abraham Lincoln, Sherlock Holmes, Justin Bieber, or Bruce Wayne). 

Requirements:

•  It must introduce the character
• The character must be introduced as a title (Think of it like a group they belong to: dork, politician, detective, superhero, prince, diva), and you must comment on either their profession or status in society.
• Must describe the person with some accuracy while also commenting on his or her character (Use satire or humor- that’s what Chaucer did)
• Must be 14 lines long
• Music be written with heroic couplets

For example:

There was a Dork emerging from the crowd,

He spoke nonsense with pride, and quite loud.

Awkwardly tall, with horrendous dance moves-

Even his parents greatly disapproved.

He wore a Batman shirt with a striped tie,

With such a style, students wished him to die.

He spoke of hashtags and the Walking Dead,

Boring us to tears, “Please shut up” I pled.

He showed us his treasure: a PowerPoint,

As he presented, our eyes went disjoint.

Talking of his website all day and night,

“We don’t care”, we screamed, “Don’t put up a fight!”

I glanced at him, sighed, and felt my fury,

This would be a long walk to Canterbury.

Canterbury Tales Assignment

   

    1.       Read the opening prologue to the Canterbury Tales. Basically, a group of 29 travelers are meeting at a Tavern in London to begin their pilgrimage, or journey, to Canterbury. The narrator introduces each character and tells the reader a little about them. Some of these characters will reflect medieval culture in ways you may expect, and some of these characters will deviate from your expectations.

    2.      With your partner, select two characters who reflect the traditional medieval culture they would be coming from. Select a quote for each of them that shows their reflection of medieval culture. This would be Chaucer the medievalist, or realist.

    3.      With your partner, select two characters who do not seem to reflect traditional medieval culture, or who seem to break from the norms or expectations of that type of person in medieval England. This would be Chaucer the humanist, satirist, or Renaissance man.

Make sure to turn this in by the end of the class.  You may work in groups of up to four people, but everyone needs to turn in their own paper.

Homework Due 9/2

Read the Medieval Literature Intro Packet.