April
16
ELA B30: Ap 16 Review of play to date, scene questions, and Act I sc v…
- We started off with a reminder about blogs being due next week. Students were encouraged to start reading each other’s blogs and adding their comments. They have a handout / checklist meant to help them ensure they’ve completed all that was required of the blog project and on the far right column is a space for them to fill in the name of the person’s blog for each week.
- We briefly talked about a few of the main characters and what it is about their personality or habits that suits the outfit that character wears during our play acting. For example, Claudius is wearing a Hawaiian shirt because every day’s a party for him, now that he has his brother’s crown, his wife, and a kingdom to control. Hamlet, though, broods every day about the death of his father, the vulgar marriage of his mother to his uncle, the fact that all anyone in his kingdom does anymore is drinks which brings down the value of their people in the eyes of others… but also because he wasn’t made king.
- We read through all the scene questions for all of Act one, except scene five, which we watched in video first, before reading it. We reviewed on the board the beliefs people had about ghosts at the time Shakespeare’s play would have been created. They beleived any sign of a ghost meant something was left undone, someone was possibly murdered, they had burried treasure they had to show to someone, they wanted to lure people to their death or just warn of impending doom. What was the purpose of this ghost and how did people interpret what he had to say?
- We watched the two videos attached in yesterday’s blog post for B30. They, the class, definitely appreciated the Mel Gibson version moreso than the first video. We pointed out the two tasks the Ghost asks of Hamlet. From these, we have to decide whether Hamlet follows his instructions as asked. He was to:
- Taint not thy mind
- Nor let thy soul contrive/Against thy mother aught
- Then we watched Holly, Eric and Josh’s performance of Porphyria’s Lover on video. They did a wonderful job and should feel pleased with their performance.