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: Choose two of the three questions and answer them thoroughly.
A. How common do you believe the act of revenge is in everyday life? Write about specific incidents, including any in which you were involved or have witnessed.
B. Characterize yourself as a "thinker" or a "doer." In this respect what character in the play are you most like? How would you like to be different, or would you like to be different?
C. Have you or anyone you have known ever seen or claimed to have witnessed some kind of supernatural being? Explain the circumstances surrounding the even. Do you believe in the supernatural? Explain.
2. Finish reading Act II.
3. Complete standards focus graphic organizer (mood and tone).
4. Read Act III of Hamlet.
5. Complete standards focus graphic organizer (style).
6. Read Act IV of Hamlet.
7. Complete standards focus graphic organizer (character motivations).
8. Read Act V of Hamlet.
9. Complete standards focus graphic organizer (plot development).
4. Closing: Review what you have read.