Welcome to our unit of advanced Shakespearean drama. Our class will decide between the plays Hamlet and Othello. Both are tragedies and both deal with revenge, madness, envy, pride, betrayed love, dysfunctional families, war-beseiged castles, and both have an intricate mixture of sublime poetry and mind-bending philosophy. Which play will we study? You will decide in a class vote.
Learning activities will include, reading the play together, watching and critiquing film adaptations, making inferences and connections through close reading, class discussions and debates, identifying and explaining rhetorical devices, themes, character development and plot elements, expanding vocabulary, writing essays, and producing/presenting original dramatic monologues.
Learning activities will include, reading the play together, watching and critiquing film adaptations, making inferences and connections through close reading, class discussions and debates, identifying and explaining rhetorical devices, themes, character development and plot elements, expanding vocabulary, writing essays, and producing/presenting original dramatic monologues.
Refer to the following pages from the Senior Style Guide during this unit and while writing your essay:
Refer to the following pages from the Senior Style Guide while creating, producing, and performing your dramatic monologue:
Additional Resources for Shakespeare Unit:
Essay Outline Template
Integrating Evidence (PowerPoint)
Dramatic Monologue Brainstorming Template
Writing Blank Verse (PowerPoint)
The Four Humours (PowerPoint)
Hamlet Online Etext
Othello Online Etext
- Steps in the Writing Process (2)
- Bloom's Taxonomy Question Stems (5)
- Introductions and Conclusions (9-10)
- Transition Words (11-12)
- Blending Quotations (13)
- Embedded References (14)
- Works Cited (15)
- Close Reading (16-17)
- Rhetorical Devices (18-20)
- Tone (21-22)
Refer to the following pages from the Senior Style Guide while creating, producing, and performing your dramatic monologue:
- Bloom's Taxonomy Question Stems (5)
- Introductions and Conclusions (9-100
- Rhetorical Devices (18-20)
- Tone (21-22)
Additional Resources for Shakespeare Unit:
Essay Outline Template
Integrating Evidence (PowerPoint)
Dramatic Monologue Brainstorming Template
Writing Blank Verse (PowerPoint)
The Four Humours (PowerPoint)
Hamlet Online Etext
Othello Online Etext