Objective
Statements: Students will be able to:
-orally read Shakespeare’s stanzas in Old English
-chronologically
develop a timeline of surrounding historical events
-summarize the main points of Hamlet’s readings
-describe the characters of the play and distinguish
a three dimensional character from a flat character
-describe the meaning of a tragedy in Shakespeare’s time and in terms of today.
-Given
an important quote, the 10th grade English students will be able to identify who said it and provide the context
in which the statement was delivered in the play.
Students
will be demonstrating the elements of performance levels associated with Wisconsin’s WKCE State Standards of Grade 10
Reading
By:
-interpreting the meaning of figurative language, using context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar
words and determining which meaning of a multiple-meaning word is used in a text
-identifying stated relationships among story elements and drawing conclusions about characters based on stated
information in a portion of or throughout a text
-distinguishing among relatively more or less important details that support a main idea.
Viewing
the following links will be to your benefit, as they will provide you with an overview of key concepts to know about Shakespeare
and his plays. I may draw questions from these readings and video clips, so please check them out before class, as we
will be discussing their content next week.
