Primary Reading Assignment

Read Hamlet, Act IV (http://tech-two.mit.edu/Shakespeare/Tragedy/hamlet/hamlet.all.html)

Supplementary Reading Assignment

Read "Hamlet" from Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays (1817) by William Hazlitt (http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/thomas_larque/ham1-haz.htm)

Read "Humanities: General Advice for Non-Majors" (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~compose/student/humanities/write.html)

Self-Evaluation

Complete interactive quiz on Act IV (http://www.teachersfirst.com/quiz/hamquiz-4.htm)

Writing Assignment

Answer six of the following ten questions: (http://hamlet.hypermart.net/quest4.html)

Rhetorical Lesson

"Considering Structure and Argument" (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~compose/student/ac_paper/write.html)

"Higher Order Concerns and Lower Order Concerns" (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_hocloc.html)

"Quoting, Paraphrasing and Summarizing" (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_quotprsum.html)

Grammatical Lesson

"Improve your Writing Style" (http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/style.html)

"Using Commas" (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_comma.html)

"Grammar, Spelling, Punctuation and Syntax" (http://www.dac.neu.edu/owl/ucdict/secel.html)

Misc. Assignment

Compose the introduction and thesis paragraph(s) of your Hamlet paper

Read "Introductions" (http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/introductions.htm)

For Next Time

Read Hamlet, Act V

Upcoming Assignment

Consider the relationship between the introduction and the conclusion of your Hamlet paper.

Read "Conclusions" (http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/conclusions.html)