Primary Reading Assignment

Read the Play

Individual Acts and Scenes

Individual Speeches

Supplementary Reading Assignment

Read Freud, Johnson, Coleridge, Eliot

Literary Terms/ Elements of Drama

Actors on performing Hamlet

Life of Shakespeare, his times and theater

Self-Evaluation

Quiz for Each Act, character, speech/dialogue

Study Questions

Writing Assignment

Responding to Study questions

Preparing for Big Assignment

Describe a player's view of a scene in first-person prose

Rhetorical Lesson

Thesis, Analysis, Support, explication, Evidence

Reading and thinking critically

Stages of Writing (prewriting, gathering info, outlining and organizing, writing, revising, proofreading)

Writerly and Readerly prose

Structuring Paragraphs (unity, organizing techniques, linking techniques)

Introductions and Conclusions

Grammatical Lesson

Coherence, pronoun reference, economy, action, transitions, diction, complex sentences, parallelism, consistency/agreement, comma splices, subordination, emphasis, variety

Use OWLs, handouts, mini-lessons

Citation procedures

Misc. Assignment

Chatrooms for draft workshops;

View movies (and where);

For Next Time

Anticipate themes, individual assignments

Upcoming Assignment

Essay questions on Hamlet

Leave time for drafts, revision

Map out all the stages of the paper (see TEW)