How do multiple authors examine the Aristotelian tragic hero?
How does an “anti-hero” descend into madness as exemplified in various genres?
Learning Targets/Standards:
I can read dramatic literature and analyze its conventions to identify how they express a writer’s meaning.
1. Opening Assignment: Respond to the following prompt.
Write about a time when you discovered that someone was purposefully plotting against you for some reason. Explain the situation—how you felt, how it turned out.
2. Finish reading Act IV of Hamlet.
3. Complete standards focus graphic organizer (character motivations).
4. Read Act V of Hamlet.
5. Complete standards focus graphic organizer (plot development).
6. Begin watching Hamlet.
7. Closing: Review what you have watched.