Essential Questions:
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: Answer the following question in relation to Hamlet. You may need the book to answer this.
In Act I, scene iii of Hamlet, Polonius gives Laertes a great deal of "fatherly advice" about how to live his life. Look at this section and find advice you have heard from your own parents. How valuable is this advice? Have you used it? Have you been involved in any situation to which this advice was applicable?
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).
10. Closing: Review what you have read.
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: Answer the following question in relation to Hamlet. You may need the book to answer this.
In Act I, scene iii of Hamlet, Polonius gives Laertes a great deal of "fatherly advice" about how to live his life. Look at this section and find advice you have heard from your own parents. How valuable is this advice? Have you used it? Have you been involved in any situation to which this advice was applicable?
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).
10. Closing: Review what you have read.