1. Hamlet Bellringer # 24-8-14 Directions: Use your character map to help you with these questions. 1.What happens to Hamlet’s father before the play starts? 2.What did Hamlet’s mother do, shortly after this? 3.What is suspicious about this action? List all you can think of. 4.Who is Polonius? 5.Why does Hamlet and Ophelia’s relationship seem odd? (Why could it not work?) Today’s Target: I can read drama and analyze the author’s use of conventions.

2. Hamlet Bellringer # 24-8-14 Directions: Use your character map to help you with these questions. 1.What happens to Hamlet’s father before the play starts? 2.What did Hamlet’s mother do, shortly after this? 3.What is suspicious about this action? List all you can think of. 4.Who is Polonius? 5.Why does Hamlet and Ophelia’s relationship seem odd? (Why could it not work?) Today’s Target: I can read drama and analyze the author’s use of conventions.

3. Hamlet Bellringer # 34-9-14 All questions are from Act I, scenes i and ii. Use your book to help you. 1.At the beginning of Act 1, scene I, why are the guards “on edge”? (Give two reasons). 2.Why do the characters in Act 1 decide the ghost will not speak to them? 3.Why is Claudius sending ambassadors to Norway? 4.What is the basic reasoning of Claudius and Gertrude’s argument to Hamlet about his melancholy? Today’s Target: I can read drama and analyze the author’s use of conventions.

4. Hamlet Bellringer # 44-10-14 All questions are from Act I, scenes ii and iii. Use your book to help you. Parenthetical Citation = (Act.Scene.Lines) 1.“Frailty thy name is woman!” (1.2.146) What does Hamlet mean by this statement? Do you think he is speaking about all women or just his mother? Why? 2.What is Laertes’s advice to Ophelia? 3.What does Polonius command of Ophelia? Today’s Target: I understand how the author’s choice of details supports characterization.

5. Hamlet Bellringer #64/14/14 1.How was Old King Hamlet killed? 2.How does the ghost feel about the queen’s involvement in his situation? What does he tell Hamlet to do about it? 3.What does Hamlet resolve to do at the end of Act I? List two items. Today’s Target: I can summarize information important for analysis.