Grade 12

• Hamlet
• Finished scenes 5 and 6. Lots absent! Catch up over break you guys! :-)

Grade 10

• Those here worked on essays. Lots absent!

Grade 12

• Hamlet
• Yesterday: IV.ii and IV.iii
• Today:
• IV.iv and IV.v.1-121 (pd 1 only got through scene 4 due to assembly.)

Grade 10

• Yesterday and today: Continue Julius Caesar exam.

Grade 12

• Hamlet
• The Critical Analysis Essay Rerevisited
• Practice writing a thesis statement from list of essay prompts.
• Review what the thesis statement for the "To be, or not to be" should be.
• Distribute essays (periods 1 and 7). Rewrites due 4/8, though I recommend getting them back to me before spring break starts.

Grade 10

• Lulius Caesar: Exam
• Today: multiple choice
• Tomorrow and Wednesday: essay

Grade 12

• Hamlet Act III quiz
• Begin Act IV on Monday

Grade 10

• Julius Caesar, Act V video
• Unit exam on Monday

Grade 12

• Hamlet
• Finish Act III Video
• Went over Act II quiz.
• Act III quiz tomorrow

Grade 10

• Julius Caesar
• Finished reading Act V (end of the play)
• Video tomorrow,
• Exam on Monday. 

Grade 12

• Group B journals due today
• Essays due tomorrow!
• Journal schedule:
• Group A: 4/9
• Group B: 4/16
• Hamlet:
• Watched the first part of Act III video

Grade 10

• Julius Caesar
• V.i.1-127 (whole scene)

Grade 12

• Essay reboot
• Went over the objective for the "To be or not to be", as many of the essays submitted were considerebly off target.
• Essays were handed back and we went over the expectations.
• From now on planning pages are mandatory.
• Intro paragraphs need strong thesis statements which solidly connect to the task.
• Body paragraphs provide evidence (quote or praphrase from text) to support the thesis statement. In-text citations are required.
• When quoting four or more lines from Shakespeare, normally you should use block quotation:
• Example: Richard III tells his troops,
  
  Remember whom you are to cope withal:
  A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways,
  A scum of Britains and base lackey peasants,
  Whom their o'ercloyed country vomits forth
  To desperate adventures and assur'd destruction.
  (V.iii.315-319)
  
  In your manuscript, indent block quotations twice -- they are distinct from normal paragraph indentations. Also note the manner of citing the source here. The roman numerals for Act and Scene are standard, although one sees Arabic used by some critics.
• In quoting shorter passages in linear form, you still need to indicate line breaks when Shakespeare is writing in verse: Othello recalls, "Upon this hint I spake: / She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, / And I lov'd her that she did pity them" (I.iii.166-168). Note the withholding of final punctuation in this case until after the parenthetical citation. The slash marks indicate line breaks in the verse.

• Any idea introduced, assumption or conclusion needs to be developed, explained and, where appropriate, citations should be provided.
• Essays due on Thursday. 

Grade 10

• Julius Caesar, Act IV quiz

Grade 12

• Hamlet
• Yesterday: peer review of "To be or not to be" essay.
• Today: III.ii.176-402 (pd 1 started at line 96)
• What is the theme of the play within the play?
• What connection does it have to the rest of the play?
• Does Claudius reaction prove his guilt? Why or why not?
• Why is hamlet angry with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

Grade 10

• Julius Caesar
• Yesterday: IV.ii and IV.iii.1-141
• Today:
• Journal: What is the difference between Cassius and Brutus?
• IV.iii.142-239
• With what internal conflict has Brutus been struggling?
• What do Cassius and Brutus disagree on? Who wins?

Grade 12

• Group A journals due tomorrow
• As I will be absent tomorrow morning, the essay due today will be peer reviewed tomorrow. New due date is Thursday the 15th.
• Hamlet:
• Pd 1: III.ii.1-95 (shortened due to senior class pics)
• Pds 2 and 4: III.ii.1-175
• Why does Shakespeare spend 47 lines having Hamlet advise the players?
• What does Hamlet value in Horatio?
• What can be said of Hamlet's madness so far in this scene?
• What is driving his treatment of Ophelia?

Grade 10

• Julius Caesar:
• IV.1.1-51
• What are Antony, Octavius and Lepidus doing at the beginning of the scene?
• What do you learn of each character?
• How does Antony feel about Lepidus?
• Whatis Octavius' reaction to this?
• Finish Act II quiz.

Grade 12

• Continued analyzing Hamlet's "To be or not to be" speech.
• Essay due on Monday.

Grade 10

• Julius Caesar, Act III video.
• Quiz tomorrow and will include vocabulary.

Grade 12

• Yesterday: Reviewed quiz 1; Read III.i.1-63
• Today:
• Dist. "To be or not to be" handout.
• number lines according to book
• identify challenging vocabulary
• Listen to soliloquy
• In teams, begin analyzing the speech line by line
• What is Hamlet's argument?

Grade 10

• Yesterday: Antony's Funeral Oration activity.
• Studets were given a hadnout of the speech and had to identify each line in which Antony was being ironic.
• Today: III.iii.1-36
• Who is Cinna the poet?
• What literary elements are important to this scene?
• What is Shakespeare's purpose in this scene?
• Begin video. (Start at 5:15, continue HERE.)

Grade 12

• Act II quiz

Grade 10

• Review yesterday's questions.
• Read and discuss II.ii. 1-269 with special attention to Antoy's funeral oration