Drama 2 & 3

Learning Tasks for Monday, April 14

Essential Question:  Are Shakespeare's plays still relevant?

Objectives:  I can...
-identify the themes and plot elements of Hamlet.
-rewrite Hamlet as a contemporary play.


1.  Writing into the Day
Hamlet repeatedly sees his father's ghost.  Do you believe in ghosts?  Why or why not?

2.  Assignment:  Rewriting Shakespeare
Choose one of the excerpts you have read from your textbook to paraphrase. You will paraphrase your chosen text into a contemporary script. In other words, you will rewrite the Shakespearean English into modern English. You should use the text annotation, a dictionary, and your summary to help you paraphrase the lines. Do not try to paraphrase in a word by word manner. Instead, look at the ideas that are conveyed, and try your best to get at the overall sense of the text.

Excerpts (choose just one):

• Act I, scene ii: Hamlet, the Queen, and the King, lines 64-160.
• Act I, scene ii: Horatio, Marcellus, Barnardo, and Hamlet, lines 165-255.
• Act I, scene iii: Laertes and Ophelia, lines 1-54.
• Act III, scene i: Hamlet and Ophelia, lines 56-161.
• Act IV, scene vii: Laertes, the messenger, and the King, lines 1-89.
• Act IV, scene vii: Laertes and the King, lines 75-195.
• Act V, scene i:  Hamlet, the Gravedigger, and Horatio, lines 61-201
• Act V, scene i: Hamlet, Laertes, the Doctor, the Queen, the King, and Horatio, ll. 207-343.

Awesome comic versions of Shakespeare's plays. Which one is your favorite?

A useful infographic that keeps track of all of Shakespeare's deaths for you.

Learning Tasks for Tuesday, April 15

GOOD LUCK ON THE... ehh, I'm not even going to jinx it.

Learning Tasks for Wednesday, April 16

Essential Question:  In what ways does theatre offer insight into real life?

Objectives:  I can...
-identify the necessary elements of theatre.
-analyze the plot of a play.

1.  Writing into the Day
Create a pie chart illustrating what YOU do.

2. Assignment:  Rewriting Shakespeare
Continue working on your play!  We will share our finished products with each other once we're finished.

FYI:  Benedict Cumberbatch to play Hamlet on stage in London

Learning Tasks for Thursday, April 17

Essential Question:  In what ways does theatre offer insight into real life?

Objectives: I can...
-compare dramatic conventions of tragedy and comedy.
-analyze plot devices used in Chekhov's The Bear.

1. Writing into the Day

2.  Lecture Notes
Together, we will read through and discuss the Lecture Notes posted in Blackboard.

3. Reading
Together, we will read through and discuss Anton Chekhov's play, The Bear.  Enjoy the light-hearted nature of this play after a long week of Hamlet!