Tuesday 11/27

Journal:  Consider whether a son's relationship with his parents differs from a daughter's relationship with her parents.  Do father and son relationships contrast mother and daughter's?  Examine nuances of these familial complexities.

1.  Discuss Journal

2.  Profile Shakespeare website:  Identify 37 plays by genre.

3.  Activity:  Report out:  Shakespeare / Tragedy/Tragic Hero

Aristotlean Tragedy:
http://www2.cnr.edu/home/bmcmanus/poetics.html

4.  Pre- Reading Hamlet Questions:

Directions:  Discuss each question in small groups.  Everyone participates; gives information, shares responses, and records notes.  Each student is required to turn in individual responses by Friday 11/30.

View Act 1 scene, 1  Hamlet.