Wow. I worked hard on two good blogs Friday afternoon. I posted yours by accident to AP--AFTER I'd already posted the right one for them. They were confused because mostly they didn't scroll down. You were left without a blog. But here's what you should have gotten!! SO sorry.
Friday Wrap-Up
TODAY IN CLASS/Expectations for Monday and folllowing
Hamlet Essay
Both classes went over general ideas/requirements/deadlines for the Hamlet essay due next week. Today's focus was meant to get you started on selecting a topic and starting to gather/organize information ("textual support") from the play. I DO expect you to start work on this over the week-end. You will receive a hand-out on Monday detailing more information, but I don't want you side-tracked by detail now.
The most important things to know now are these:
1) You DO need specific textual support--at least six citations. All but one of these needs to be a direct quotation; a close paraphrase or summary of something specific will work for another. Six is a minimum; many papers will have more.
2) Overall length is three or four pages--the strongest papers will probably tend to be four
3) Complete, typed, formatted first draft is due WEDNESDAY, and the final copy is due before you leave for break. (This means Friday for most of you, but it could mean Thursday for some.)
So get going on this now.
Also in class today. . .
In 4th period, I returned the Act V study guides and we went over all the answers for accuracy and completion.
In 6th period, we talked more generally about the critical questions or general "puzzlements" created by the events of Act V--or of the play as a whole.
On Monday these activities will be reversed.
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