1. 11/11 and 11/14 Warm Up: Quickly study your vocabulary words!
Take Vocabulary Quiz (B2 and A4: Play Kahoot! first) ADVANCED: take up Claudius Homework during quiz
Finish Act 3 and begin Act 4
Analyze Ophelia’s Madness
Exit Slip (if time)
RL.12.1: I can cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says.
L.12. 6: I can use domain-specific words and phrases at the career and college readiness level.

2. We’ll review vocabulary words for ACT 3, as well as ACTS 1 and 2.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L
I can use domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level.
Kahoot! A4 and B2
We’ll review vocabulary words for ACT 3, as well as ACTS 1 and 2.
Act 3 Vocab

3. Watch/discuss Act 3 and Act 4
Think about these questions:
(WHICH COULD APPEAR ON A HAMLET TEST…) Test date: 11/21 A or 11/22 B
How does Hamlet feel about Ophelia at the end of Act 3?
How does Hamlet treat his mother in the bedroom scene?
How have Gertrude’s feelings changed over the course of the text?
How does Hamlet feel after what happens in his mother’s bedroom?
Do you feel like Hamlet is legitimately crazy? Why or why not?

4. So…. Ophelia went a little cray. Why? What drove her to these moments?
RL.12.1: I can cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says.
Ophelia’s Madness
So…. Ophelia went a little cray. Why? What drove her to these moments?
Analyze Ophelia’s madness with your table partner before we discuss as a class.

5. RL.12.1: I can cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says.
Discussion 1 and 2
Which lines show that Ophelia gone mad? Use evidence from HER words to explain.
How does the flower imagery further show Ophelia’s madness?
Now that we know that she dies at the end of Act IV, how can we see that her death was foreshadowed?

6. RL.12.1: I can cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says.
What does this mean?
5. How do her songs reveal to us her beliefs about how Hamlet views her?
He tells Horatio that he is going to act insane
He purposefully speaks in riddles to further his agenda of pretending to be mad
He seems insane to those around him
Gertrude and Claudius are worried about him

7. Exit Slip