Advice in Hamlet *MFB* common core adapted*revised 2016

DISCUSS: What was the best or worst advice anyone has ever given you? What was the situation? What was the advice? Did you take it? Why or why not?

What makes advice “good”? Brainstorm! What should it do? How should it help? What should it address? How should it be communicated?

You are in love… Who do you take advice about love from? Would you take it from your parents? Your siblings? Friends? Wikipedia? Did you ask for the advice or did they just give it to you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa2nLEhUcZ0

Advice to Ophelia: Would you take relationship advice from your dad or your brother? From Laertes: Act I, scene 3 13-48 From Polonius: 98-133

YOUR TASK: Read your assigned passage. Annotate it. With your group, decide: What is the advice being given? How do you know? (textual evidence) Is this good advice? Will Ophelia listen?

You are graduating... Everyone has something to say about it… What should you do? Where should you do it? Who should you do it with? Should you pick a major? Who do you listen to, and why?

Polonius’s advice to Laertes Read excerpt of Act I, scene 3, Lines 55-81

YOUR TASK: Read and annotate the advice passage. Isolate 7 pieces of advice given by Polonius to his son. With your group, decide: What are the 7 pieces of advice given? How do you know? (textual evidence) Is this good advice? Is this still good advice in 21st century America?

Let’s see what he said…

Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act.

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch’d, unfledged comrade.

Beware Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, Bear’t that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express’d in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

This above all: to thine ownself be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Discuss Has advice changed over time?

Instructions As seniors in this school, you are to give advice to underclassmen about how to survive high school Teachers, classes, ways to be successful, ways to avoid trouble, etc. Using a poster, list at least 10 pieces of advice for underclassmen Make it look nice and neat – be creative Be appropriate