Hamlet Resources

 Resources:
Hamlet -- Full Text online


Enjoying "Hamlet" 

Shakespeare Resource Center

Hamlet: The Undiscovered Country











Links:

Dr. Seuss Does Hamlet: Fox in Socks, Prince of Denmark

HAMLET: The Song (from Prarie Home Companion)

Hamlet Discussion Questions

Hamlet Practice AP-style Multiple Choice Questions:"To be or not to be . . ." Soliloquy (11 Questions)

Hamlet Journal Templates (This is a backup; we will complete in Classroom)
Click here for the Hamlet Act I Journal template.
Click here for the Hamlet, Act II Journal template.

Then copy and paste the template to your favorite word processing program.  Then save it as a

Hamlet on Facebook:
 If only Elsinore had Wifi:Click here to view.

Jane Eyre & Bean Trees: Socio-Historical Essay

Jane Eyre & Bean Trees Socio-Historical Essay
     --Essay Rubric
     --Essay timetable:
          -Wednesday, Jan. 2:  draft of 4 body paragraphs
          -Friday, Jan. 4:  draft 6 - 8 body paragraphs
          -Tuesday, Jan. 8:  completed draft including introduction and closing
          -Monday, Jan. 14: revised draft
          -Wednesday, Jan. 16: final draft
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Reminder:  body paragraphs should be developed as follows:
1. topic sentence  
2. lead-in to textual evidence 1 
3. textual evidence 1 
4. commentary 
5. transition and lead-in to textual evidence 2 
6. textual evidence 2 
7. commentary 
8. concluding or clincher sentence 

In order to provide convincing evidence of a theme, multiple examples must be provided!
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Resources:
--The Importance of Historical Context (skip down to section, "Historical Context in Literature"
The role and status of women:
--"Jane Eyre and 19th Century Women" (text & video)
--"The Bean Trees:  Feminism and Solidarity Among Women" 
Poverty, mobility, & Social class:
--"Class Attitudes in The Westminster Review and Jane Eyre"
--The Bean Trees Quotes
--New York Times Book Review:  The Bean Trees

A more complete list of readings is here.

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

AP Lit. Terms Quiz 

Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text)
--alternate Text with Audio & Study Questions
--Brief Review:  Rime of the Ancient Mariner (recommended)
--Dynamos Rime of the Ancient Mariner Themes incl. "Great Chain of Being"

Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Modern Culture
Rime of the Ancient Mariner & Pirates of the Caribbean
Iron Maiden, "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" lyrics and audio

Have you ever done something stupidly careless and known it was stupid at the time? 

If you have, then you can relate to the narrator of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

allegory: a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another.  2.  a symbolical narrative: the allegory of Piers Plowman.

temporal: 1. of or relating to time.
2.pertaining to or concerned with the present life or this world; worldly: temporal joys.
3. enduring for a time only; temporary; transitory (opposed to eternal ).

liminal: 1. relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process.
2. occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold.

What does liminal mean to you? (short video)
Liminal Spaces/Crossings (video)
An article about modern liminal spaces is here.

Jane Eyre Reading Assignments

for Monday, Dec. 3 -- Chapts. 19 & 20.*

for Tuesday, pp. 235 - 275.  See Ch. 21 questions here.

for Wednesday, pp. 275 - 325

for Thursday, pp. 325 - 365

for Friday, pp. 365 - 405

for Monday, Dec. 10 -- pp. 405 - 445

for Tuesday, pp. 445 - 485

for Wednesday, pp. 485 - end

*As you can see above, the reading pace will pick up beginning next week, so be sure to have read the first 20 chapters by Monday.  Expect to have at least one quiz (and at least one round of Kahoot!) on the reading next week.  Also expect a quiz the following week on the whole book

Double-entry journals will be due Wednesday, Dec. 12.  

Sonnets! Sonnets! Sonnets!

"When Nature made her chief work, Stella's eyes, 

In colour black why wrapt she beams so bright?"

--from Spencer, Astrophil and Stella (an example of the type of poem  Shakespeare is roasting in Sonnet 130.)

Famous Shakespearean Sonnets

Pop Sonnets  (Contemporary Songs Re-Written in Sonnet Form)
     the Time Magazine article featuring a few Pop Sonnets is here.

Assignment for duing class on Thursday:
Choose a sonnet as a base and an approach (see handout for suggestions); then draft the first quatrain of your sonnet.

Jane Eyre -- Resources & First Assignments

Jane Eyre Reading Assignment for Monday, Nov. 26

• Read Jane Eyre, Chapts. 1 - 10.
• Use sticky notes to mark 10 text passages that relate to the socio-historical issue you have chosen as a focus.  See handout for suggestions on issues.

Which Jane Eyre Character Are You?

Take the quiz here. 
For extra points, take the survey a 2nd time for your teacher or another class member and see if the character you come up with matches theirs.

Jane Eyre Full Text Online
          Jane Eyre -- Project Guterberg, full text online, searchable by "Control F"

          Jane Eyre -- Literature.org, full text online, searchable by chapter

Jane Eyre Character List (click here)

Upcoming:

• Choose a sonnet as a base and an approach (see handout for suggestions); then draft the first quatrain of your sonnet.

Bean Trees and Socio-Historical Commentary

--"Timeline: Guatemala's Brutal Civil War" (from PBS.org)
--"Guatemalan Army Stole Children . . ."
--"Children Were Routinely Kidnapped . . ."
--Kingsolver's Bean Trees as a Political Critique . . ."

Poetry Techniques and Modern Music

Use of Alliteration, Consonance, and Assonance in Popular Music

"How Does Hamilton . . ."

"Consonance, Assonance, and Alliteration in Hip-Hop"

"Assonance, and the Art of Writing Lyrics"

Bob Dylan, "Subterranean Homestyle Blues"

The Crucible -- A Preview

Ten Powerful Facts about The Crucible.

The Crucible (official trailer)

The Crucible (student project film trailer)

The Crucible (historical context, slideshow)

The Crucible (more detail on witchcraft)

Assignments for week of Oct. 29

Check in / Schedule Conferences as needed:
     --Tragic Characters Comparison Essay (due Friday)

Intro to The Bean Trees
     --Reading Assignments

• Chapts. 1 - 2 -- due Monday, Oct. 29
• Chapt. 3  -- due Tuesday
• Chapt 4 -- due Thursday
• Chapts. 5 - 6 -- due Monday, Nov. 5
• Chapts. 7 - 8 -- due Tuesday, Nov. 6 (plus a total of 8 total double-entries)
• Chapts. 9 - 10 -- due Wednesday
• Chapts 11 - 12 -- due Thursday
• Chapts. 13 - 14 -- due Friday
• Chapts. 15 - 17 -- due Tuesday, Nov. 13

     --Double-entry Journal:  You are asked to keep a double-entry journal of 4 - 6 entries for each set of two chapters.  The left column of each entry is a quote or a paraphrase.  The right column is your analysis.  Analysis may take the form of comments, connections, predictions, or questions.  Connections may take the form of (a) a personal connection; relating the excerpt to personal experience or observation; (b)  a connection to another text; or (c) a connection to the world.
(aka "text to self;" "text to text;" "text to world" connections.)  Include a page number with each entry..

Shakespeare, "Sonnet 97"  & PAWS

Assignment for Wednesday, Oct. 24

--Continue drafting your Tragic Characters Essay.  Your draft should now be up to 700 words (minimum). 
--Plan to complete your draft, including introduction and closing, by the start of class on Friday.

On Dramatic Irony

On Dramatic Irony      --from TypesofIrony.com
This form of irony is considered by many writers as a potent tool for exciting and sustaining the interest of readers and audiences. The irony creates a big contrast between the immediate situation of the character and the episodes that will follow, and therefore, generates curiosity.

By allowing the reader and audience to know more things ahead of the characters, the irony puts the reader and audience [in a position] above the characters and encourages them to hope, to fear, and anticipate the moment when the character finds out the truth behind the situations and events of the story.

Dramatic irony is also used more often in the tragedies. In such stories, the readers and audiences are pushed to sympathize with the characters all the way to the tragic end. The irony is used to emphasize the fatality of limited understanding even on innocent and honest people, and to demonstrate the painful repercussions of misunderstandings. The characters in the story or play remain ignorant about the bad fate while the reader or audience knows about the heartbreaking end.

Assignment for Monday, Oct. 22

1. Create a Google doc which will contain the outline and draft for you Tragic Character Essay.  Link this document to the latest assignment on Google Classroom.

2. Continue to build your outline with quotes and topic sentences.  Also add a thesis statement.  The "skeleton" of your outline might look something like this:
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Thesis: The writers of Oedipus Rex and Death of a Salesman both use techniques including imagery, diction, and dramatic irony to bring out a sense of tragedy in the mind of the reader. 

1. Imagery

• Oedipus Rex
• quotes to support
• Death of a Salesman
• quotes to support

2.  Diction

• Oedipus Rex
• quotes to support
• Death of a Salesman
• quotes to support

. . .  etc.
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Begin drafting your body paragraphs.  Draft 3 paragraphs or 250 words (whichever comes first) by class time on Monday.

Diction & Syntax

Questions for analyzing Diction and Syntax

Diction
1. What type of words draw your attention? (Verbs, Nouns, Adjectives…)
2. Is the language general and abstract or specific and concrete?
3. Is the language formal, informal, colloquial, or slang?
4. Does the text employ figurative language?
5. Are there words with strong connotations that indicate strong emotions?

Syntax
1. What is the order of the parts of the sentence?
         (Subject-Verb-Object) or (Object-subject-verb)
2. What are the sentences like?
         Periodic-moving toward something important at the end.
         Cumulative-beginning with an important idea and then adding details.
                  More on these two sentence types here.
3. Describe the types of sentences.
         (Simple, compound, complex, compound complex)
4. Does the writer ask questions?
5. How does the writer connect words, phrases, and clauses?

More on Diction and Syntax in Death of a Salesman is here.
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Assignment for Friday, Oct. 18

1. Complete the Tragic Character Venn diagram if you have not already done so.
2. Spend 20 minutes skimming the resources below.  This should help you sharpen your focus, clarify your purpose, and begin to think through ways to organize your essay:

for Sharpening Your Focus:
on Tragedy, Fate, Fatal Flaw, Hubris . . . 

You will be writing an expository essay.  For help with Essay Format:
Purdue Owl:  Expository Essay
" . . . Expository Essay vs. Persuasive Essay" (Pen and Pad)

Organization Patterns for a Compare/Contrast Essay from SJSU
How to Write a Comparative Analysis from Harvard College Writing Center

3. Spend 5 minutes re-reading the essay prompt (click here if you don't have a paper copy)

4. Create a draft outline for your Tragic Character Essay.  This should include the names of two tragic characters and the literary elements you will be discussing.  There are several possible ways to organize this type of essay -- and there are advantages to each.  Which makes the most sense to you?