Jan [Document title]
Monday Tuesday Wednesday
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NO SCHOOL NO SCHOOL
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Complete Draft Hamlet 1.1
(with correct MLA heading) Sets mood, provides
Due background, creates suspense,
establishes themes, and
Final revision/editing introduces main characters
of Pillars Process paper
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FINAL PAPER DUE
Hamlet 2.1 Hamlet 2.2
Motifs: spying & insanity Motifs: spying & insanity
Character foil: Ophelia/Hamlet
Character development:
Claudius, Gertrude, Laertes,
Ophelia, Polonius, & the Ghost
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Hamlet 5.1
Comic relief: graveyard scene
NO SCHOOL Hamlet’s “return” from his
mythological journey
Hamlet 5.2:
Structure: cyclical
Tragic Conventions
Articulation of central themes
Thursday Friday
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Complete Pillars Process Introduction/First body
NO SCHOOL Paper Prewriting (with correct MLA heading)
(including quotations) due
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Hamlet 1.2 Hamlet 1.3 Hamlet 1.4-1.5
Character development: Character development: Character development:
Claudius, Gertrude, Laertes, Ophelia and Polonius Claudius, Gertrude, the Ghost,
Ophelia, Polonius, & the Ghost Hamlet, & Horatio
Biblical Allusions:
Garden of Eden & Cain and
Abel
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Hamlet 3.2-3.4 Hamlet 4.1-4.7
Hamlet 3.1 Foils: Horatio/Hamlet, Foils: Laertes/Hamlet &
Freytag’s Pyramid Ophelia/Hamlet, Fortinbras/ Hamlet
Laertes/Hamlet
“To be or not to be” soliloquy/ Hamlet’s tragic flaw = passivity
“Get thee to a nunnery” Motifs: whore, time, insanity,
& music Hamlet’s mythological journey
Symbols: water, garden, &
light/darkness
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Hamlet Vocabulary Quiz
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HAMLET TEST Consensus *
Journal #2:
“To Snooze or Not To Snooze”
(Soliloquy Parody—at least 20
lines long, iambic pentameter)