1. Warm Up: Study your words!!
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.
Warm Up: Study your words!!
commission (n.) order
firmament (n.) sky
malefaction (n.) evil deed; crime
pestilent (adj.) destructive; deadly
promontory (n.) high land jutting into the sea
sovereign (adj.) supreme in power
tedious (adj.) dull and lifeless

2. 11/1 Agenda Warm Up: Study your words! Vocabulary Quiz: Act 2
Do you have your homework? This would be a GREAT time to finish once your quiz is over!!!
Act 2 Soliloquy and Analysis
Multiple Interpretations
Start Act 3: Hamlet (use guided question sheet)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL
I can cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L
Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL
Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem (e.g., recorded or live production of a play or recorded novel or poetry), evaluating how each version interprets the source text. (Include at least one play by Shakespeare and one play by an American dramatist.)

3. Do your best on the Act 2 vocabulary quiz!
Do you have your homework? This would be a GREAT time to finish once your quiz is over!!!
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L
I can use accurately general domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level.

4. Act 2 Soliloquy and Analysis
RL I can cite strong textual evidence to support analysis of main idea of the conversations in Act II.
RL I can analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone.
Act 2 Soliloquy and Analysis
Using the analysis sheet, answer the following questions. Make sure you use the modern text and cite examples on your worksheet.
Discuss as a class.

5. Multiple Interpretations
RL.12.7: I can analyze multiple interpretations of Hamlet’s Act 2 soliloquy evaluating how each version interprets the source text.
Multiple Interpretations

6. On the back of your Act 2 analysis, answer the following questions:
How does Kenneth Branagh's adaptation differ from David Tennant’s Hamlet adaptation?
What thoughts or feelings do you have toward the adaptations? Which one do you prefer and why?
How does the staging contribute to your understanding of Hamlet? Does it? If so, how does the staging help? If not, how does it not?
RL.12.7: I can analyze multiple interpretations of Hamlet’s Act 2 soliloquy evaluating how each version interprets the source text.

7. RL I can cite strong textual evidence to support analysis of main idea of the conversations in Act III.
Act 3
Start Act 3 guided questions with the text and your table. We’ll watch and discuss next class.