Your reading of Hamlet this week is as follows:

Monday night – Act 3 (also need to complete a role sheet for tomorrow's literature circle)

Tuesday night – Act 4.1-4.3

Wednesday night –  Act 4.4 – 4.6

Thursday night –  Act 4.7 – 5.2 (also need to complete a role sheet for tomorrow's literature circle)

Over the weekend you will be working on your midterm portfolio and studying for your midterm. 

On Tuesday, April 12 you will be given eight passages from Hamlet to read, six of which you will need to identify.  You will need to accurately identify the speaker, explain the context, and discuss the significance of each passage.  On Tuesday, you will also have to explain one school of literary theory (that was presented in our Heart of Darkness unit) and explain how it could be used to analyze Hamlet.

On Wednesday, April 13 you will be given 30 minutes to answer 32 multiple choice questions.  This will be followed by a 40 minute essay.  The essay will ask you to explicate a passage that I will give you ahead of time.  Although you will not get the prompt ahead of time, be assured that the assignment will require close reading of the passage and an understanding of how form creates meaning.