LAST WEEK WE FOCUSED UPON OUR JOURNALS and developing your ideas in greater depth, both in the in-class assignments and at home, individual-choice entries (which were assigned this week). Besides journals, we began reading Shakespeare's Hamlet, and for a few journals students reflected on favorite passages. We also began work on our next project: an alternative art exercise and essay.

Monday

Reading 1.4 and 1.5 of Hamlet in pairs. We will not be outside.
HW: Read act two for class tomorrow.

Tuesday

Journal literary response. Word exercise related to Hamlet's "to be or not to be" soliloquy.
HW: Read act three for class tomorrow.

Wednesday

Journal literary response. Memorization assignment, and then reading act four in class.
HW: Finish act four for class tomorrow.

Thursday

Blocking of assigned scenes/roles.
HW: Finish Hamlet for class tomorrow.

Friday

Today we will begin watching a classic of black and white cinema, Lawrence Olivier in Hamlet.
HW: Record the audio for your assigned scene.