Act Five, Scene One

March 1, 2018

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3

Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.7

Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem (e.g., recorded or live production of a play or recorded novel or poetry), evaluating how each version interprets the source text. (Include at least one play by Shakespeare and one play by an American dramatist.)

EQ: Analyze how Shakespeare's choices impact character development.

Starter: 

Class Soundtrack 

Ophelia

How does the painter's treatment of the subject or scene compare with Shakespeare's?

Vocabulary: 

Lit Term: Tragic Hero

Part of Speech: Noun

Dictionary Definition: literary character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction.

Your Definition:

Activity: Give an example of a tragic hero.

Activity: 

1.  Culture Connections

With a partner, create a mind map connecting ideas in Hamlet to society today.

These connections should be based off of plot points, conflict, characterization, and theme.

For each category, find at least two connections and explain how it relates to the idea in Hamlet.

Songs

Image/Painting

Conflict in Society

Public Figures

2.  Act Five Scene One

Characters 

First Clown

Second Clown

Horatio

Hamlet

Laertes

Priest

Gertrude

Discussion Questions

Interpret the conversation the gravediggers are having.

Explain Hamlet's behaviors in the graveyard based on your observations. 

Analyze the texts comment on death.

3.  BBC Production 

Closure: 

How did making connections to our world today help with your understanding of Hamlet?