Friday, December 4

In-Class:

• Journal:
  How to Understand Shakespeare
  What if this cursed hand were thicker than itself with brother’s blood? Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens to wash it white with snow? Whereto serves mercy but to confront the visage of offense?
  But, o, what form of prayer can serve my turn? “Forgive me my foul murder?” That cannot be, since I am still possessed of those effects for which I did the murder, my crown, mine own ambition, and my queen.  May one be pardoned and retain the offense?
  1.       Break it in to smaller pieces.
  2.       Figure out the overall message- don’t get hung up on every single word!
  3.       Look up unfamiliar words
  4.       Look up familiar words used in an unfamiliar way
  5.       Ask your teacher
  6.       Ask each other
  7.       Watch it!
  8.       Look at the clues your text gives you on the right side!
• We took a reading quiz on Act III scenes 3 & 4
• The class was split in to 12 groups and assigned about 1-2 pages of Act IV to read and interpret into modern day language, but keeping it in the form of a script.

Homework:

• If you didn't finish your Hamlet translation, turn it in FIRST THING on Tuesday (we are reading it together as a class!)