OK, so I'll admit it: I've been pathetic at doing the blog the past few days. But here's a catch-up version.
We have officially "finished" the play. I returned the required Act V questions yesterday, and gave out two essential hand-outs. The first is for a short essay which is due on Friday:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ARigzimXmDnvZGZ0dzhmcGhfNTNoYnZuNW5jNw&hl=en
The second was a set of "big questions," linked here:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ARigzimXmDnvZGZ0dzhmcGhfNTRrYjd2M21mNw&hl=en
If you are in 1st or 2nd, we will work today in class with a few of the "big questions," but you will be on your own for the rest. They are not "due" in writing, but they provide excellent review and synthesis for upcoming events. If you are in 3rd period, we talked a bit yesterday about the level of difficulty of these questions, and isolated 1, 5, 6, and 10 as being particularly challenging. I advised a study group strategy for these (common practice at the college level) since you are so unfairly deprived of a class meeting today!
So--on Friday--there will be two things happening. Your scene analysis is due (because whatever you write on, you will have gotten "into" the play in a way that might not happen if you weren't forced to do it), and
THERE WILL BE A TEST. It's objective, but long, and text-oriented rather than a display of memory. On the other hand, the closer your knowledge of the play as a whole, the better you will do.
On TUESDAY, March 23, there will be a closed-book Question 3-style essay on Hamlet.
If you're good to go on Hamlet, and you write your short paper soon and efficiently, get on to Crime and
Punishment. Key question to think about early on: how is the protagonist LIKE, UNLIKE Hamlet?
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