Grade 12

• Started Act 5: read scene 1, 1-226.
• Showed classes example intro prgraph for the To be or not to be essay:
• “To be or not to be – that is the question…”; with this line, Shakespeare opens this very famous soliloquy (III.i.64). At this point in the story, Hamlet has been delaying taking revenge for his father’s murder and exhibits all the signs of depression. In this speech, Hamlet argues whether life is worth living. He concludes that it is, but only because of the “dread of something after death” (III.i.86).
• Hamlet compares death to sleep and makes it sound very attractive: “…’tis a consummation devoutly to be wished” (III.i.68-72). But this very thought gives rise to the next.

Grade 10

• Discussed last nights reading in TCitR.
• Class is to finish reading chapter 3 over the weekend and write it up.
• Handed out research directions and went over citations. Wrote examples:

Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1951.
“I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life” (Salinger 16).

• Choose a topic! We'll be in the library all week next week.