A Productive Work Day

TODAY IN CLASS
Students had the opportunity to work individually on completing the Act III study guide questions.  Scenes 1 and 2 should have been completed by class time today--but most people had not yet progressed to Scenes 3 and 4.  Many people managed to complete that by the end of class; for those who did not, it's due first thing tomorrow.

Small new additional assignment:  "Scene-lets" and their significance.  Note that Act III is very long, but it has only four scenes.  We need to keep better track of developments.  I'm not asking you to go back over what we've already done (Scene 1 plus the start of Scene 2, through the "nunnery" scene).  But starting with Hamlet's instructions to the First Player ("Speak the speech, I pray you. . . .") list out in bulleted form the 8-10 mini-scenes that you feel to be important.  Just identify them briefly (don't summarize in detail), but then explain why/how they are significant--probably some combination of plot, characterization, thematic idea, and imagery--but BE SPECIFIC.  But this shouldn't take long--it's just meant to show that you know the general progress of this long act.   It is also due tomorrow (Wednesday).

FOR TOMORROW
Many people turned in both the worksheet and the bulleted list by the end of class. If you did not, yes, they are due at the start of class on Wednesday.

LOOKING AHEAD
You can be reading Act IV.  I distributed the Act IV study guide questions, but I am not going to be collecting it for points--you will be working on it together in class on Thursday.  However, I expect that you all will have READ Act IV by class-time on Thursday, and just less than half the period will be devoted to small-group completion of the study guide.