Welcome Back to the Last First Day of a High School Semester

British LiteratureJanuary 6, 2014

Perspective CheckWe will be participating in a

Perspective Check to start our semester.

THERE IS ONE RULE: ONLY ONE PERSON MAY TALK AT A

TIME.

If you talk when another is talking you will lose your ability to participate in our discussion.

As we start a New Year and a new semester, here are some reminders:

1. You are responsible for doing your homework in a timely manner. When you are in college, most professors WILL NOT ACCEPT LATE WORK. To prepare for this expectation, I will be strictly enforcing SVA’s late work policy. You lose 10% each day an assignment is late and after 5 days, it will not be accepted.

To submit your late OR MAKE-UP WORK you must put your assignment in the orange/black tray. To be considered for credit, you must put the original due date, today’s date, and the number of days absent (if applicable). If you do not follow these steps, your work will not be considered.

Course Expectations

As we start a New Year and a new semester, here are some reminders:

2. If you are absent, it is your responsibility to go on my website (that is updated DAILY) and discover what you missed. I will not tell you what you missed—that is your responsibility. Additionally, I have created a Make-Up Binder for each class that will contain the extra hand-outs and an agenda of what we did that day. You may also check the binder.

3. We will have more independent work and reading outside of class this semester. In college, all of your work is done outside of class. The more rigorous work load outside of class is to prepare you for your transition into college.

Course Expectations

4. The ONLY food allowed in my classroom will be snacks (i.e. granola bar, an apple, a pack of crackers) to be used to refresh your body so that I may have your full attention and best self when you attend my class. Just a reminder this is a privilege that can be revoked if you abuse this rule.

5. Many of you requested that we more regularly use our journals. It is expected that you bring your journal to class every single day or you store your journal in your class period bin. When you enter my room for class, there will be a warm-up journal question on the SMART board. You are to begin this prompt as soon as you enter my room.

Course Expectations

HAMLET REVIEW GAME

• You will be assigned teams. In your teams, we will play a Hamlet review game Jeopardy-style.

• I will post an answer on the board and in your teams you will write the question (like on Jeopardy) on your yellow board and hold it up.

• Example: −I POST ON THE BOARD: Prince of Denmark−THE WINNING TEAM WRITES: Who is Hamlet?

Hamlet’s MotherWho is ?

Hamlet’s loverWho is ?

Current king of Denmark

Who is ?

Counselor to the king

Who is ?

Polonius’ SonWho is ?

The GhostWho is ?

Hamlet’s TRUE friend from Wittenberg University

Who is ?

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern

Who are ?

HAMLET REVIEW GAME

LITERARY ELEMENTS EDITION

• I will post a quote from Hamlet on the board. In your teams, you will write “What is (literary element)?”

• For each example there may be more than one correct answer.

RECORD THESE EXAMPLES ON YOUR HAMLET LITERARY ELEMENTS GLOSSARY.

“Each particular hair to stand an end, / Like quills upon the fearful porpentine.”

What is ?

(I.v.25-26)

“For hecuba! / What’s hecuba to him or he to hecuba / that he should weep for her?”

What is ?

(II.ii.585-587)

“o, most wicked speed, to post/with such dexterity to incestuous sheets!”

What is ?

(I.ii.161-162)

“A little more than kin, and a little less than kind.”

What is ?

(I.ii.65)

“I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.”

What is ?

(IV.ii.23)

“To be or not to be—that is the question”

What is ?

(III.i.64)

“The rooster, that is the trumpet to the morn”

What is ?

(I.i.165)

“What a piece of work is man, how noble in reason; how infinite in faculties, in form and moving; how express and admirable in action; how like an angel in apprehension; how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals. And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust?”What is ?

(II.ii.287-292

“I must be cruel only to be kind.”

What is ?

(III.iv.199)

“It would cost you a Groaning to take off my edge.”

What is ?

(III.ii.249)

“Though inclination be as sharp as will.”

What is ?

(III.iii.43)

“So the whole ear of Denmark / is by a forged process of my death / rankly abused.”

What is ?

(I.v.43-45)

Hamlet Skits

• You will be randomly assigned a group and assigned an Act from Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

• In your group, review your Records Journals to decide the main important events in the act. You will put on a short skit to the class that illustrate the significant moments from your assigned Act.

• Your skit may not exceed eight minutes.

Senior Letter & Act IV of HamletBritish LiteratureJanuary 8, 2015

Remember Polonius? Remember Laertes? What about his advice?

I want you to earnestly think about your experiences as you start to see yourself as an independent young adult. What advice would you give yourself? Today, you are writing a letter to yourself that I will hold on to until our last day in this class. These are the things you may want to discuss in your letter: • What goals do you have?

• What memories do you want to keep?

• What are the most important life lessons you have learned thus far?

• What do you think you will need to hear on the eve of your high school graduation?

Senior Letter