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: Practice Multiple Choice Questions from Hamlet
2. Assign literary terms review.
3. Finish reading Act V of Hamlet.
4. Complete standards focus graphic organizer (plot development).
5. Watch Hamlet.
6. Read "The Gangster as Tragic Hero." Be ready to discuss this and its relationship to Hamlet and Heart of Darkness.
7. Read "Tragedy and the Common Man." Complete the questions for this selection and be ready to discuss its relationship to Hamlet and Heart of Darkness.
8. Closing: Prepare for discussion.
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: Practice Multiple Choice Questions from Hamlet
2. Assign literary terms review.
3. Finish reading Act V of Hamlet.
4. Complete standards focus graphic organizer (plot development).
5. Watch Hamlet.
6. Read "The Gangster as Tragic Hero." Be ready to discuss this and its relationship to Hamlet and Heart of Darkness.
7. Read "Tragedy and the Common Man." Complete the questions for this selection and be ready to discuss its relationship to Hamlet and Heart of Darkness.
8. Closing: Prepare for discussion.