A Productive Work Day

TODAY IN CLASS
"Quiet Time." First, a recap of my opening spiel for those who were gone: 

• Study guides for Acts II, III, and IV are for scaffolding your own reading and understanding.  I advise you to do them, but they are not being collected for points. 
• Questions for Act V, which was handed out today, WILL be collected-- at the start of class on Friday
• Expect some sort of a quiz (content TBD in part by which day) one day this week
• I'm still deliberating the major writing assessment(s) for Hamlet this year--probably two of the the following:  a close reading of text scene analysis, several "big questions" (5-7 pages total in response to 3-4 critical questions, or an in-class "AP Question 3" essay
• Oh, and I forgot to mention in class today, there WILL be a scantron test next week.  It's excellent.

So, in class--time to absolutely finish Act III if you have been running a day late and a dollar short.  But everyone needed to add a new bulleted list (15-20 min.) or the "scene-lets" or mini-scenes starting with Hamlet's advice to the players (just after the "nunnery scene" which we did yesterday),  List them all out (8-10?  12 max??) with a brief identifying description (not a detailed summary), but then explain why/how each one is important--probably some combination of plot, character development, thematic idea, and/or imagery.
Something else I forgot to mention in class, but it doe not require a written response:  remember when I asked you to figure out where in Act III the climax occurs?  Well, tomorrow's the day.

So most people got a good start on Act IV . . .we probably won't talk about it much tomorrow, but it will be the sole topic on Thursday.

And due on Friday, as stated above:  Act V reading AND questions