April
22
ELA B30: Ap 22 Hamlet Act III sc i – ii…
- We reviewed our last class together, the end where Hamlet reveals quite clearly that he doubts the ghost can be trusted and plans the task of finding proof of Claudius’s guilt. We reviewed the questions for Act II and then got into Act III.
- I reviewed with the students the plot structure of this type of play, an Elizabethan play. Whereas in a story, the climax or highest point of tension may come near the end of the story and then resolves itself quickly, in this type of play the climax or great tension comes in the middle of the play and things unwind painfully slow throughout the long end. In this Act, Act III, Hamlet, our tragic character, does something (what exactly… we will see) but that something absolutely SEALS HIS FATE and the end is inevitable for him.
- We read through to the part of Act III sc ii just where the players are about to act out Hamlet’s extra scene. It gets very good tomorrow! I’m looking forward to it.
- Blogs are due on Friday, as well, so keep pushing through them. They’re looking really great and I’m pleased to see so many get to the point where they’re reading each other’s now. The hope in doing these journal projects this way was that, being published like this, they may be read. I hope you’re enjoying it.