Agenda for 3.26.10 - 4.5.10

Hello all, good discussion today.

• Friday, March 26^th: SRD on Act 5.
• Monday, March 29^th: Post you thesis paragraph on the blog—I would like you all to see each thesis and the feedback given: Click here or link. Also, video critique # 2 is due in class, proper MLA formatting. Click here for link. (Look at Stephany’s paper (and my comments) posted on the blog. We will tie up loose ends in class in Hamlet.
• Tuesday, March 30: SRD on Ross C Murfin’s “Feminist Criticism and Hamlet” & Elaine Showalter’s “Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism.” (Essay emailed as pdf—please print in my room or at home.)
• Wednesday, March 31^st: SRD on Ross C Murfin’s “Psychoanalytic Criticism and Hamlet” & Janet Adelman’s “’Man and Wife Is One Flesh’: Hamlet and the Confrontation with the Maternal Body.” .” (Essay emailed as pdf—please print in my room or at home.)
• Thursday, April 1: Tie up loose ends in discussion. Hamlet Reader’s Notebook due.
• Friday, April 2^nd: No School
• Monday, April 5^th: Annotated Bibliography Due—25 sources (max of 5 from internet, unless you were given permission for a different variation.) You will also need 70 research cards.

Stephany's Hamlet Video Critique Act 3 Scene 1

Stephany Jean Hamlet Video Critique Act 3 Scene 1

Hamlet video critique for Act 5 Scene 1

You have until Monday, March 29th 2010 by class to complete this assignment.

It is worth 100 points in 'Quizzes and Open Response' and will be graded with the APE Rubric.

Objective: Watch the four versions from Act 5 Scene 1 and argue which of the videos is the best interpretation of the scene. Your critique of the video must be based on your knowledge and understanding of the text, so you must provide textual evidence from Hamlet as well as provide descriptions of the video. I can't watch the video and read your essay at the same time, so you need to make me see what you see with your words. It will also help you to take notes on the video while you watch it. Pay attention to what you captures your attention. Notice what you notice!
Click here for link to all three videos.

Pay attention to:

• delivery of the lines
• imagery the setting / scenery
• the portrayal of the actor
• lighting & camera effects
• sound effects or music
  

You should use the same structure as a poem explication with the addition of your critique of the video. It should be about 1,200 - 1,500 words. Paper must be MLA formatted (pages 198-199 of easyWriter)!
Finally, you only have space in this essay to write about one video--please do not waste any words writing about why the other two videos are not as good.

Act 5 Scene 1

Kevin Kline as Hamlet, New York Shakespeare Festival (Broadway Theatre Archive) (1990)


Laurence Olivier as Hamlet, 1948. Directed by Laurence Olivier


Mel Gibson as Hamlet, 1990. Directed by Franco Zeffirelli

Kenneth Branagh as Hamlet, 1996. Directed by Kenneth Branagh

Act 4 Scene 4

Developing a Thesis

Julie Mehretu
Stadia II, 2004

ink and acrylic on canvas

At some point during your research, preferably sooner than later (but after you feel comfortable with your subject), you want to develop a thesis so that you can focus your research. Otherwise, you are wasting valuable time.

It may help to start with a group of paintings that share a common thread—the dates they were crafted, titles, subject matter, they may be a part of a series, or you may find a interesting thread on your own.

Your thesis must tie the work together (what is in common) as well as argue a theory about the significance of the work. Your research should help prove your thesis.

When developing a thesis, think of big questions: How do these paintings explain a perception of the universe? How is the artist’s own life or philosophy portrayed in the paintings? How does the artist ask her audience to view the paintings (or the universe)?

Hamlet video critique for Act 3: Scene 1

You have until Monday, March 22nd 2010 @ 2:00 p.m. to complete this assignment.
It is worth 100 points in 'Quizzes and Open Response' and will be graded with the APE Rubric.

Objective: Watch the three versions from Hamlet's soliloquy from Act 3 Scene 1 and argue which of the three videos is the best video interpretation of Hamlet's state of mind. Your critique of the video must be based on your knowledge and understanding of the passage, so you must provide textual evidence from Hamlet as well as provide descriptions of the video. I can't watch the video and read your essay at the same time, so you need to make me see what you see with your words. It will also help you to take notes on the video while you watch it. Pay attention to what you captures your attention. Notice what you notice!

Click here for link to all three videos.

Pay attention to:

• delivery of the lines
• imagery the setting / scenery
• the portrayal of the actor
• lighting & camera effects
• sound effects or music

You should use the same structure as a poem explication with the addition of your critique of the video. It should be about 1,200 - 1,500 words. Paper must be MLA formatted (pages 198-199 of easyWriter)!

Finally, you only have space in this essay to write about one video--please do not waste any words writing about why the other two videos are not as good.