1. Pre AP – 5th Do Now: Take out the notes we started yesterday Agenda:
Finish Intro to Hamlet notes
View video, “Shakespeare Uncovered – Hamlet”
As you watch the video, note what the narrator (David Tennant [a.k.a. Dr. Who]) says makes this play, and this character unique.
Turn in notes at end of period.

2. Genre – November 7, 2017
No quiz today – I already gave you questions for this chapter!
Agenda:
Complete the questions for “Tuesday, July 14th” of Monster.
When done, work on completing your “Guilty / Not Guilty” journal entries.
I will collect journals and questions at the start of class tomorrow!

3. Pre AP – 8th
Talk about Antigone
Talk about the end of Feed
Intro to Hamlet (notes)

4. Who is the tragic figure??
CREON!
Why?
The hero’s misfortune is not wholly deserved – the punishment is worse than the crime.
If someone betrayed their country, fought for the other side, and tried to enslave you and everyone you know…what would you have done?
The punishment cannot be pure loss – the hero learns something from the events.
Usually, the character’s tragic flaw is due to “hubris” or excessive pride or arrogance.

5. One more video before we start…
Now on to Feed…
One more video before we start…
Just a side note…Amazon is seriously considering building a second headquarters. Do you know where???

6. “But it didn’t matter if she was right or wrong about what she said
“But it didn’t matter if she was right or wrong about what she said. It was the fact she said it, especially to Quendy, calling her a monster, screaming like one of those girls in black at school, the ones who sat on the floor in the basement and talked about the earth, the ones who got rivets through their eyes just to make people think they were hard. I wanted Violet to be uninsane again, just a person who would touch my face” (Anderson 211).
What do we learn about Titus here?
What is Anderson saying about human nature?

7. “She kept sending things. I didn’t open them. I let them sit
“She kept sending things. I didn’t open them. I let them sit. I was walking around School TM the next day, feeling them like, feeling them crowd me. It was like something was always spilling. It was always there…I deleted everything she had sent me…I sat on the sofa. I looked at the fireplace. I had deleted all her memories” (Anderson ).
Why does Titus do this?
What is Anderson saying about human nature?

8. “It turned out that my upcar was not the kind of upcar my friends rode in. I don’t know why. It had enough room, but for some reason people didn’t think of it that way. Sometimes that made me feel kind of tired. It was like I kept buying these things to be cool, but cool was always flying just ahead of me, and I could never exactly catch up to it. I felt like I’d been running toward it for a long time” (Anderson 279).
Explain the character development.
What is Anderson’s message?

9. “Everything I think of when I think of really living, living to the full – all my ideas are just the opening credits of sitcoms. See what I mean? My idea of life, it’s what happens when they’re rolling the credits. My god. What am I, without the feed? It’s all from the feed credits. My idea of real life. You know?” (Anderson 217).
Explain the social criticism.
What is Anderson’s message?

10. “We’re sorry, Violet Durn
“We’re sorry, Violet Durn. Unfortunately, FeedTech and other investors reviewed your purchasing history, and we don’t feel that you would be a reliable investment at this time. No one could get what we call a ‘handle’ on your shopping habits, like for example you asking for information about all those wow and brag products and then never buying anything. We have to inform you that our corporate investors were like ‘What’s doing with this?’ Sorry – I’m afraid you’ll just have to work with your feed the way it is” (Anderson 247).
Explain the social criticism.
What is Anderson’s message?

11. “I’m sick of being told I’m stupid.” “So read it, and you’ll know.”
“Tell me.”
“You can look it up.”
“ You can tell me.”
“Will you ever open your eyes?”
(Anderson )
Explain the social criticism.
What is Anderson’s message?

12. “Everything must go” (Anderson 299).
What’s the final take away? Why end the book like this?

13. On to Shakespeare…
We’ll start reading Hamlet tomorrow!

14. The Oxford English Dictionary credits Shakespeare with introducing nearly 3,000 words into the English language.

15. Scholars estimate Shakespeare’s vocabulary at between 25,000 and 29,000 words, nearly twice that of the average college student.
The normal working vocabulary of a speaker of English is around 5,000 words.

16. Just a few phrases that didn’t exist before Shakespeare:
It’s Greek to me
High time
Vanished into thin air
The long and short of it
Budge an inch
The game is up
Green-eyed jealousy
The truth will out
Played fast and loose
Lie low
Tongue tied
Your own flesh and blood
Hoodwinked
Crack of doom
In a pickle
Foul play
Knitted your brows
Teeth set on edge
Fair play
In one fell swoop
Slept not a wink
Without rhyme or reason
Too much of a good thing
You quote Shakespeare all the time!
Seen better days

17. The Language
Both written and spoken language use rhythm - a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables:
Hello, my name is Jennifer.
Hel/lo, /my /name /is /Jen/ni/fer.
\ \ \ \ -
In everyday speech, the rhythm is informal (has no set structure).

18. A formal pattern of rhythm is called meter.
Blank verse:
Blank verse is unrhymed but uses a formal pattern of rhythm or meter. In the English language, blank verse is iambic pentameter.

19. Iambic pentameter
Pentameter (penta = 5, think pentagon) means there are five poetic feet.
In iambic pentameter each of these five feet is composed of two syllables: the first unstressed; the second stressed (10 syllables total).
The following is a line from one of Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets:
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Count the syllables…which are stressed and which are unstressed?

20. Answer:
\ \ \ \ \
Shall /I/ com/pare / thee / to / a / sum/mer’s/ day?
Note there are 10 syllables, in an unstressed, stressed pattern.

21. Practice:
The following are the first two lines of Romeo and Juliet.
Are they in Iambic Pentameter?
Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
Two/ house/holds, /both /a/like/ in/ dig/ni/ty, In/ fair/ Ver/o/na,/ where/ we/ lay /our/scene,
Yes!

22. Why do we care?
We care, because it impacts how you read the play. New readers have a tendency to pause at the end of a line, whether there is reason to or not! You must read Shakespeare just like you would read anything else and most importantly… PAY ATTENTION TO PUNCTUATION!

23. This is an excerpt from Romeo and Juliet:
BENVOLIO:
I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword, Or manage it to part these men with me.
It is ONE sentence!
So why is it on two lines?
Because it is written in iambic pentameter – if he’d continued the line, there would be too many syllables.
I / do/ but /keep /the /peace: /put/ up/ thy /sword, Or/ man/age /it /to/ part /these /men /with /me.

24. Why does this line start way over here?
Shared lines:
FRIAR LAURENCE: Go with me to the vault. BALTHASAR: I dare not, sir
My master knows not but I am gone hence;
And fearfully did menace me with death, If I did stay to look on his intents.
Again, because it is Iambic pentameter. The two characters are sharing the ten syllables.
Why does this line start way over here?

25. Is the whole thing written in Iambic pentameter??
No.
Shakespeare writes either in blank verse (iambic pentameter), in rhymed verse or in prose.
Verse – another word for poetry.
Prose – regular writing

26. Rhymed Verse
BENVOLIO: See, where he comes: so please you, step aside;  I'll know his grievance, or be much denied. 
Prose
Prose is regular writing. Often you will see servants talking in prose. This is to distinguish the “upper class” characters who speak in verse (fancy) and the regular Joe who speaks in prose (plain speech).

27. Common contractions found in Shakespeare.
Other Words
Art = are
Ere = before
Hence= here
Thee, thou, thy = you
Thine = your
Wert = were
Wherefore = why
But = except
Choler = anger
'tis = it is
ope = open
o'er = over
gi' = give
ne'er = never
i' = in
e'er = ever
oft = often
a' = he
e'en = even

28. Other important information:
Aside: Words spoken by an actor directly to the audience, or to another character, but not "heard" by the other characters on stage.
Monologue: A long speech by a single character without another character's response. The character however, is speaking to someone else or even a group of people.
Soliloquy: A speech meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage (as opposed to a monologue which addresses other characters). In a soliloquy only the audience can hear the private thoughts of the characters.
Foil: A secondary character whose situation often parallels that of the main character. The “foil’s” behavior or personality contrasts with that of the main character, throwing light on that particular character’s specific nature.

29. Terms Continued…
Comic Relief: Comic relief serves a specific purpose: it gives the audience a moment of “relief ” with a light-hearted scene, after a succession of intensely tragic dramatic moments. Typically these scenes parallel the tragic action that they interrupt. Comic relief is lacking in Greek tragedy, but occurs regularly in Shakespeare's tragedies.
Prologue: The word means “before speech.” The audience is meant to receive hints about what they will be watching in this play. Think of it as a movie trailer.
Subplot: A secondary, subordinate, or parallel plot that coexists with the main plot.

30. “Family Tree” of Characters
Elsinore
The castle in Demark where all this takes place.