Wednesday

VIEW THE BOOK  DISCUSSION  SCHEDULE

• Writing Practice
• I returned the timed essays with introduction/thesis feedback based on AP scoring (1-9). I discussed the qualities of a good thesis statement. You can listen to the podcast of this here. Then, we revised the thesis statements and turned them back in.

• Hamlet
• Act II, 2, part 1 (1-215)
• Annotation guide 
• HW due Fri. 2/1/19: 
• Read and annotate to the end of Act II.
• Analyze Hamlet's next soliloquy, "A Rogue and Peasant Slave" (lines 505-562). Although it isn't the most famous soliloquy in Hamlet, the Act II, 2 soliloquy is considered by many actors to be the most eloquent in the drama. Spend some quality time looking at it and marking it for these key features:
• self-realizations
• short moments of profound depression
• self-directed insults
• incredulous questioning
• changes in tone
• peaks of rage
• the seeds of a plan
• NOTE: You will need to understand the mythological origin of the Pyrrhus/Priam/Hecuba allusion in order to understand much of the soliloquy. Here are some good sources for researching this:
• Handout summary
• Encyclopedia entry on Priam