Fortinbras! Who?

Watch and read all of Act V. Write one blog entry about the ending by Tuesday.

Hamlet Presentations

This Thursday we'll be presenting our Hamlet scenes 2:15-4:30 in the theater.

Hamlet Outside of Denmark, Beyond Time

By Monday I'd like you to read/watch each of these links and write a blog response incorporating at least one picture, and identifying five vocabulary words of your choosing (to be matched with images):

Freud on Hamlet

T.S Eliot on Hamlet

Documentary about directing Hamlet

As usual there are some big names, famous figures, the V.I.P of the history of ideas, so please use your tertiary sources like wiki and google to fulfill any curiosity you may have about these people. Do not however mistake this as an invitation to read summaries rather than the original. These are dense texts, but you need the practice. Not everything in life is BBM and Doctor Seuss.

Wordiness Workshop

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/572/1/

Don't Forget to Hand in Your Paper Revisions

This week you must turn in your in-class revisions that will be graded primarily on their use of active voice and conciseness.

For Those That Might Have Missed Last Week's Workshop

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/539/01/

Act III At Home

This week watch/read the Royal Shakespeare's Company recent version of Act III that begins here.

Write a word-based close reading of any moments you find intellectually enticing in three blog entries.

Also bring to class on Wed/Thurs your in-class close reading revisions.

For Those Struggling with Standard English

Read these and find the practice excercises that go with them:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/606/01/

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/572/01/

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/566/01/

Resources for Embedding Quotations

I found this resource I think will be helpful for citing directly from a text.

http://www.virtualsalt.com/quotehlp.htm

Passive Voice Exercise

Directions: Change the sentences below to the active voice.

1. The statue is being visited by hundreds of tourists every year.
2. My books were stolen by someone yesterday.
3. These books had been left in the classroom by a careless student.
4. Coffee is raised in many parts of Hawaii by plantation workers.
5. The house had been broken into by someone while the owners were on vacation.
6. A woman was being carried downstairs by a very strong firefighter.
7. The streets around the fire had been blocked off by the police.
8. Have you seen the new movie that was directed by Ron Howard?
9. My car is in the garage being fixed by a dubious mechanic.
10. A great deal of our oil will have been exported to other countries by our government.

Words Words Homework

This week I’ll ask that you begin rehearsing and memorizing your lines for your scenes.

In addition compare these two versions of Hamlet’s soliloquy and write one blog entry in which you discuss the differences in these actors interpretation of Hamlet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyB4ktn7AIE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCBVmiVkzTM

Also, this weekend listen to

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/218/act-v

and write one blog entry in which you relate your experience with Hamlet to that of the Missouri East Correctional Institution.