Research Paper Due. . .

Monday, March 23rd, 2009. This means printed out and organized as you walk into class. If you are late, the paper is late. Late papers lose a letter grade.

All MLA guidelines must be followed. Please take note of them. If they are not followed, I will not accept the paper and your paper will bve considered late. The only exceptions to the MLA format are that you can single space the Annotated Works Cited & Consulted to save some paper. Also, I do not want any images in the body of the paper--I want them before your first page.

The paper must be a minimum of 13 pages--
Order of things to be held together by a paper clip:

• Images
• Your Paper
• Works Cited
• Works Consulted
• Rubric (see previous post and print out--if you don't print out, you will not receive comments.)

Good luck, and work hard...Peace

Research Paper Rubric

Malden High School Research Paper Rubric

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Cast a Character

Think of yourself as the director of Hamlet. As the director of the play/movie, you need to have a clear, developed, complete concept of your vision of the play. A director’s vision of a play should all work together: the music should echo the set, and the costumes. You may find it useful to base your concept of the play around a singular theme that you want to reinforce through set, costumes, sound, and delivery.

Assignment: Propose your vision for the play by ‘casting a character.’ (Just one.) Your development of this character needs to address the following:

• the physical looks of the character
• the character’s ‘costume’ (Consider colors, fit, style, time period, and texture.)
• how the character would deliver his or her lines?

You can also address (if needed):

• how the stage or set would look and be arranged
• the sound effects or music that you would use in the production

You can (and maybe even should) draw, create, or link to any images to aid in your description.

But, it is answering the WHY that is at the heart of this assignment. Your ‘vision’ must be based on your knowledge and understanding of the play, so you must provide textual evidence from Hamlet to help describe why you made certain choices. Exemplary assignments will provide a strategic reading of the play, as well as develop a theory about one of the characters that could be refuted or backed up with evidence from the text.

You will be graded on the MHS Long Composition Rubric

You need to post your ‘vision’ in the comments stream by Monday, 3.16.09 @ noon. It must be 1,200 to 1,500 words long.

Act 5: Scene 2

Act 5: Scene 1

Act 3: Scene 1; Act 3: Scene 2

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy covers R Kelly's 'The Worlds Greatest'

Some pretty great readings coming up...

Tuesday, March 10, 7 pm
Los Wünder Twins del Rap (hip hop), Seamus Connolly (Irish fiddle), and Buck Downs (poetry)
URBAN VILLAGE ARTS SERIES
National Park Visitor Center
246 Market St.
Lowell, MA Tuesday,

March 17, 8 pm
Fanny Howe and Tom Raworth
Pierre Menard Gallery
2 Arrow Street
Harvard Square Monday,

March 23, 7:30 pm
Sonia Sanchez
9th Annual Robert Creeley Award
R. J. Grey Jr. High School Auditorium
16 Charter RdActon, MA

Agenda for week of 3.2.09

Snow Day! (I've done some adjusting of our schedule due to the snow.)

REMINDERS:

• MONEY ($18) AND PERMISSION SLIPS ARE DUE ASAP FOR PLAY ON MARCH 5.
• NEXT AP SATURDAY SESSION IS MARCH 21. MARK IT ON CALENDER. I THINK YOU WILL LIKE THIS LAST ONE; YOU WILL RECEIVE YOUR SCORES AND RESULTS FROM THE PRACTICE TEST AND HAVE SOME COACHING ON ANSWERING THE THREE TYPES OF ESSAYS. PLUS, I WILL BE TEACHING AN 'ELECTIVE' ON POETRY IN TRANSLATION.
• Please check snapgrades and come after school to 'catch up' with any late work so I that can give you credit.
  

3.2.09

• Snow Day. No class.

3.3.09

• In class: Graded: Student Led Discussion on Act 4 (Part 1 of 2). You should, as we discussed previously, have read Act 4 and prepared your notebook for the discussion. We do not have a lot of class time, so make sure to steer the discussion to 'your needs and desires'.
  

3.4.09

• Snow Day. No class.

3.6.09

• Field Trip. Beckett's "End Game." (I am very excited.) No class.

3.6.09

• In class: Graded: Student Led Discussion on Act 4 (Part 2 of 2). You should, as we discussed previously, have read Act 4 and prepared your notebook for the discussion. We do not have a lot of class time, so make sure to steer the discussion to 'your needs and desires'.

3.9.09

• Due: Annotated Bibliography & Artist Bio w/ Thesis paragraph (2pgs.)
• In class: We will start & then try to finish Hamlet by Tuesday or Wednesday.