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EWL Week 13: Monday

  • Scribe
  • LPS Poetry Slam 5:30, 7:00 Ames Elementary
  • Quiz on Act 3-4
    • groups of 3-4

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Essential Question:

  • Who are we? Men of action or inaction? Revenge or compassion?

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  • HW: Fishbowl on Wednesday

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EWL Week 13: Wednesday

  • Scribe
  • Act 4 fishbowl:
    • Presenter
    • Discussers
    • Outer circle

Essential Question:

  • Who are we? Men of action or inaction? Revenge or compassion?

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HW: outline for essay, and Google Doc outline

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EWL Week 13: Friday

  • Scribe
  • Read act 5: 1-2
    • Gravedigger scene- purpose
    • Death- what is Shakespeare saying?
    • What are Hamlet’s feelings about death? about life?
    • Denmark’s feelings about Ophelia? about Hamlet?
    • Who is Yorick?
    • Why does Shakespeare pair sad themes told with humor?
    • Ophelia’s burial
      • Queen’s feelings
      • King’s
      • Laertes
      • Hamlet
    • Hamlet V. Laertes in the battle over Ophelia- why so late?
    • Hamlet’s story of his trip
      • Hamlet: genius or madness
      • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

Essential Question:

  • Who are we? Men of action or inaction? Revenge or compassion?

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  • Hamlet’s plan
  • Who is Osric?
  • The King’s proposal to Hamlet and Laertes
  • Queen’s realization
  • The fight
  • Queen’s realization
  • Revenge or compassion?
  • Action or inaction?
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HW: outline for essay and Google Doc outline

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Contest for $$$$

I'm writing to welcome any of your students (up to age 19) to participate by preparing an essay of 700-800 words on the topic: How Dreams Lead to Success. Our official deadline for submission of essays is February 28, 2014,but we are encouraging students to get their essays in by February 14, 2014 to allow ample time for judges to read and evaluate each essay. The award for the overall winner at the District level is a $2500 college scholarship.

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Rubric

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Poetry contest

  • Go to kenyonreview.org/groddprize.
  • Submission button will be live November 1-30, 2013.
  • High school sophomores and juniors only, please.
  • Limit of one unpublished poem and one entry per person.
  • No submission fee, it’s free!

You’re eligible to enter the 11th Annual Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers contest, presented by The Kenyon Review, one of the country’s best-read literary magazines. If you are the winner or one of the two runners-up, you will see your poem published in our quarterly journal and on our website. In addition, the winner receives a full scholarship to the 2014 Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop in Gambier, Ohio, next summer.

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EWL Week 14: Monday

  • Scribe
  • Quiz Act 5?
  • Fishbowl Act 5

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Essential Question:

  • Who are we? Men of action or inaction? Revenge or compassion?

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HW: outline for essay, be ready to write in class essay

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EWL Week 14: Wednesday

  • Scribe
  • Write essay

Essential Question:

  • Who are we? Men of action or inaction? Revenge or compassion?

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HW: outline for essay and Google Doc outline

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Hamlet Essay

  • Who are we? Men of action or inaction?
  • Who are we ? Men of revenge or men of compassion?
  • In order to survive, must we have both madness and genius?
  • Who we are? Solitary v. public? Family v. friends v. public
  • Role of Honor?
  • Connections between Pi and Hamlet
  • Free choice: approved by Smith

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Introduction

In-class essay:

  • Thesis: title, author, restate and answer question, and a why

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Thesis

  • Titles, authors, restate and answer question, and a why
  • Ex: In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Shakespeare defines the need of humans to be men of action because without action, society falls and with action humans have purpose.
    • This is Smith’s thesis- you need to create your own.

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Body Paragraph- 1, 2

  • Topic sentence: point from thesis:
  • Set-up first example-
  • Lead-in, "quote" (Shakespeare, ).
  • Explanation:
    • what does the quote say
    • connect to the point of the paragraph-
    • connect to the thesis-
  • Transition to next example
  • Lead-in, "quote" (Shakespeare, ).
  • Explanation:
    • what does the quote say
    • connect to the point of the paragraph- topic sentence point
    • connect to the thesis-
  • Transition to next example-
  • Lead-in, "quote" (Shakespeare, ).
  • Explanation:
    • what does the quote say
    • connect to the point of the paragraph- topic sentence point
    • connect to the thesis-
  • Concluding sentence

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Body Paragraph- 1, 2

  • Topic sentence: point from thesis
  • Set-up first example-
  • Lead-in, "quote" (Shakespeare, ).
  • Explanation:
    • what does the quote say
    • connect to the point of the paragraph- topic sentence point
    • connect to the thesis-
  • Transition to next example
  • Lead-in, "quote" (Shakespeare, ).
  • Explanation:
    • what does the quote say
    • connect to the point of the paragraph- topic sentence point
    • connect to the thesis-
  • Transition to next example-
  • Lead-in, "quote" (Shakespeare, ).
  • Explanation:
    • what does the quote say
    • connect to the point of the paragraph- topic sentence point
    • connect to the thesis-
  • Concluding sentence

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Body Paragraph- 1, 2, 3

* you might not need three paragraphs depending on thesis

  • Topic sentence: point from thesis
  • Set-up first example-
  • Lead-in, "quote" (Shakespeare, ).
  • Explanation:
    • what does the quote say
    • connect to the point of the paragraph- topic sentence point
    • connect to the thesis-
  • Transition to next example
  • Lead-in, "quote" (Shakespeare, ).
  • Explanation:
    • what does the quote say
    • connect to the point of the paragraph- topic sentence point
    • connect to the thesis-
  • Transition to next example-
  • Lead-in, "quote" (Shakespeare, ).
  • Explanation:
    • what does the quote say
    • connect to the point of the paragraph- topic sentence point
    • connect to the thesis-
  • Concluding sentence

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Concluding paragraph

  • Restate thesis: not in exact same words
  • Review points made- what did you prove; state this succinctly
  • Final thoughts

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Keep in mind:

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  • No personal words: I, you, me, my, our, we, us
  • No contractions
  • No: This quote means...
  • Lead in, "quote" (citation). Quotes can't stand alone. They must be part of a sentence.
  • Proper citation:
    • (Shakespeare, 4.3.24-27).
  • Skeletal outline printed out a ready to turn in at end of essay. Print out ahead of time
  • Bring own technology?
  • Save outline and save writing numerous times and numerous places

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EWL Week 14: Friday

  • Scribe
  • Write essay: due by Monday after break

Essential Question:

  • Who are we? Men of action or inaction? Revenge or compassion?

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HW: Essay due, outline for essay and Google Doc outline, copy of Oedipus

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