Hamlet’s Soliloquy ACT III, Scene I Lines 64 - 98 Yes, this should go in your Reader’s Journal…

Partner Up Complete a close read of the soliloquy: What descriptive techniques (allusion, metaphor, personification, etc.) does Shakespeare use in this passage and how do they contribute to his purpose here? What poetic techniques are used in this passage? Take about 10 minutes (more if necessary)

Join another pair: Share what you and your partner found during your close read. As a group of 4, discuss how this passage contributes to the theme of indecision, inaction and paralysis of action? How does it contribute to the possible theme statements you came up with last week? As a group choose one insight that you discovered to share with the class. Another 10 minutes (more if necessary)

As a class: Share your insight with the rest of the class. What predictions can we make about Hamlet after hearing this soliloquy? Rest of class period - Share each groups findings – discuss what they found (or may have missed).

The Slacker’s Soliloquy To slack, or not to slack, that is the question; Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The zeros and low marks of outrageous assignments, Or to take pens against a sea of compositions, And by opposing, finish them. To work; to accomplish, No more, and by accomplishment to say we end The workload, and the thousand essays That students are heirs to; 'tis a dream Devoutly to be wish'd. To work, to accomplish; To accomplish; perchance to succeed; ay, there's the rub; For in that accomplishment of work what mark may come, When we have submitted this completed piece, Must give us pause; there's the respect That makes calamity of so long a school career. By Enoch Tung Just for fun. 