Focus Texts: Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Arthur Miller’s “Tragedy and the Common Man,” and Robert Warshow’s “The Gangster as Tragic Hero”
Essential Questions:
How do multiple authors examine the Aristotelian tragic hero?
How does an “anti-hero” descend into madness as exemplified in various genres?
A. Opening Assignment: In Act I, scene 3 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?
B. Go over Act II quiz.
C. Continue reading Act III.
D. Closing: Finish Act III and complete graphic organizer.
Note: Your outline is due today. The next step of the research process is to write your rough draft. I will give you a due date for the rough draft after I have returned your outlines.
Essential Questions:
How do multiple authors examine the Aristotelian tragic hero?
How does an “anti-hero” descend into madness as exemplified in various genres?
A. Opening Assignment: In Act I, scene 3 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?
B. Go over Act II quiz.
C. Continue reading Act III.
D. Closing: Finish Act III and complete graphic organizer.
Note: Your outline is due today. The next step of the research process is to write your rough draft. I will give you a due date for the rough draft after I have returned your outlines.