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Hamlet Packet

For the Hamlet Unit, you will be responsible for several items. Besides reading, you will respond daily

to the progression of the play. For this you will complete daily reading observations, in class active

reading questions, act quotes and act applications.

You will use this packet for the following:

Reading Observations:

On the day of each reading, you are to bring the following:

1) an observation about something from one of the scenes and why you found it interesting

2) a short quote from the text that you found interesting and a brief explanation why (and

yes, you must copy the quote with parenthetical documentation – Act, scene, line –

e.g. I, ii, 25-26)

3) a question you have about what is going on.

These will be checked off for completion at the beginning of class. Later they will be used as a way

to jump-start class discussions. Use this as an opportunity to clarify anything that you find confusing in

the text before you are forced to move on. This is your chance to impact what we talk about and

how much you personally get out of this unit, so please make the most of it.

Although these will not be fully assessed for quality until the end of the unit, each day’s observation

must be checked off when due in order for it to be assessed at the end of the unit.

Act Active Reading Questions:

Active Reading questions should be completed for the sections read at home each night. They are

HOMEWORK. These will be checked off for completion at the beginning of each class day. NOTE –

Active reading questions are arranged in order by ACT, that does not mean that you will finish all of

an Act’s questions with each night’s reading, since each act has been broken down to cover several

days. It is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to glean how many you can answer based on the night’s reading.

Although these will not be fully assessed for quality until the end of the unit, questions must be

stamped when due in order for it to be assessed at the end of the unit.

This packet will be turned in and completely assessed on Tuesday, May 1, 2018.

Act Analysis Questions:

To be done on your own paper. These will be due the day after we have finished reading the

complete Act in class. They are not to be held and submitted with the packet on 05/01/18.

AP English 12 – Ms. Arrowood

Packet Due

Monday,

05/01/18

Name:

Period

March/April/May 2018 – AP English 12 – Ms. Arrowood 03/19 03/20 03/21 Early Release 03/22 03/23

Complete Explication DUE

Shakespeare Intro

HW? Read p. 7-25, Read

Ob & ?s

Check off homework

In Class – read Act I, sc i – ii

(p. 7-25)

HW: read p. 25-49, Ob & ?s

Check off homework

In Class – read Act I, sc ii – iii

(p. 25-49)

HW: read p. 49-69, Ob & ?s

Check off homework

In Class – read Act I, sc iv –

end of Act (p. 49-69)

HW: Test Corrections

Test Corrections DUE

Practice AP Test

Multiple Choice

HW: Act I Analysis ?s

03/26 Turn in Analysis ?s 03/27 03/28 03/29 03/30

WATCH ACT I

HW: Finish Analysis ?s AND

read p.73-93, Read Ob & ?s

Check off homework

In Class – read Act II, sc i –ii

(p. 73-93)

HW: read p. 93-111, Ob & ?s

Check off homework

In Class – read Act II, sc ii

(p. 93-111)

HW: Study Vocab

Classwork Notebook DUE

ESSENTIAL VOCAB V TEST

HW: read p.111-119, Ob &?s

Check off homework

In Class – read Act II, sc ii –

end Act II (p. 111-119)

HW: Act II Analysis ?s

04/02 04/03 – Allusion #6 DUE 04/04 04/05 04/06 Possibly Finish Act III

Turn in Analysis ?s

WATCH ACT II

HW: read p.123-145,Ob &?s

Check off homework

In Class – read Act III, sc i –ii

(p. 123-145)

HW: read p.145-161,Ob & ?s

Check off homework

In Class – read Act III, sc ii

(p. 145-161)

HW: read p163-185, Ob & ?s

Check off homework

In Class – read Act III, sc ii –

end Act III (p. 163-185)



Practice AP Test

Multiple Choice

HW: Finish Act III Analysis ?s

Ind Read #4 Essay & Packet

04/09 – Spring Break 04/10 – Spring Break 04/11 – Spring Break 04/12 – Spring Break 04/13 – Spring Break

04/16 04/17 04/18 04/19 Turn in Analysis ?s 04/20 Possibly Finish Act IV

WATCH ACT III

HW: Finish Ind Read #4

Edit Ind Read #4

Essay

HW: read p.189-205,Ob & ?s

Check off homework

In Class – read Act IV, sc i –

iv (p. 189-205)

HW: read p.205-235,Ob & ?s

Check off homework

In Class – read Act IV, sc v –

vii (p. 205-235)



Practice AP Test

Multiple Choice

HW: Act IV Analysis ?s

04/23 04/24 Ind Read #4 DUE 04/25 04/26 04/27

WATCH ACT IV

HW: read p.239-251,Ob & ?s

Check off reading ob

In Class – read Act V, sc i - i

(p. 239-251)

HW: read p.253-273,Ob & ?s


In Class – read Act V, sc i - ii

(p. 253-273)

HW: Study Vocab

ESSENTIAL VOCAB VI TEST

HW: read p.239-287,Ob & ?s


In Class – read Act V, sc ii –

end of play (p. 239-287)

HW: Essay Reflection

4/30 Possibly Finish Act V

Essay Reflection DUE

WATCH ACT V

HW: Finish Packet & Act

V/End of Play Analysis ?s

May 1

Packet & Act V/End of play

?s DUE

Hamlet Free Response

Essay

HW: Test corrections

May 2

Test corrections DUE

Practice AP Test

Multiple Choice

May 3

AP Test Review

May 4

AP Test Review

READING OBSERVATIONS On the day of each reading, you are to bring the following:

1. an observation about something from one of the scenes and why you found it interesting

2. a short quote from the text that you found interesting and a brief explanation why (and yes,

you must copy the quote with parenthetical documentation – Act, scene, line – e.g. I, ii, 25-

26)

3. a question you have about what is going on.

These will be checked off at the beginning of class and later used as a way to jump-start class

discussions. Use this as an opportunity to clarify anything that you find confusing in the text before you

are forced to move on. This is your chance to impact what we talk about and how much you personally

get out of this unit, so please make the most of it.

Act I, sc. i – sc. ii, line 63 (p. 25 Polonius) Characters: Barnardo, Francisco, Horatio, Marcellus, King, Cornelius,

Voltemand, Laertes & Polonius

1.

2.

3.

Act I, sc. ii, line 64 (p.25) – sc. iii (end – p. 49) Characters: King, Hamlet, Queen, Horatio, Marcellus, Bernardo, Laertes,

Ophelia, Polonius

1.

2.

3.

READING OBSERVATIONS

Act I, sc. iv (p. 49)– end Act I (p. 69) Characters: Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus, Ghost

1.

2.

3.

Act II, sc. I (p. 73) – sc. ii, line 182 (p. 93) Characters: Polonius, Reynaldo, Ophelia, Kin, Queen, Rosencrantz,

Guildenstern, Voltemand

1.

2.

3.


Act II, sc. ii, line 184 (p. 93) – sc. ii, line 490 (p. 111) Characters: Queen, Hamlet, Polonius, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, First

Player (lead actor)

1.

2.

3.

Act II, sc. ii, line 491 (p. 111) – end Act II (p. 119) Characters: Polonius, First Player, Hamlet, Rosencrantz

1.

2.

3.


Act III, sc. I (p. 123) – sc. ii, line 169 (p. 145) Characters: King, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia,

Hamlet, Player, Horatio

1.

2.

3.

Act III, sc. ii, line 170 (p. 145) – sc. ii (end - p.161) Characters: Prologue, Hamlet, Ophelia, Player King, Player Queen,

Queen, King, Lucianus, Polonius, Horatio, Guildenstern, Rosencrantz

1.

2.

3.


Act III, sc. iii (p. 163) – end Act III (p. 185) Characters: King, Guildenstern, Rosencrantz, Polonius, Hamlet, Queen,

Ghost

1.

2.

3.

Act IV, sc. i (p. 189) – sc. iv (end – p. 205) Characters: King, Queen, Hamlet, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Fortinbras,

Captain, (Gentlemen – ALL)

1.

2.

3.


Act IV, sc. v (p. 205) – sc. vii (end – p. 235) Characters: Queen, Gentleman, Horatio, Ophelia, King, Messenger,

Laertes, ALL, Horatio, Gentleman, Sailor

1.

2.

3.

Act V, sc. i (p. 239) – sc. i, line 229 (p. 251) Characters: Gravedigger, Other, Hamlet, Horatio

1.

2.

3.


Act V, sc. i (p. 253) – sc. ii, line 238 (p. 273) Characters: Laertes, Doctor, Hamlet, Queen, King, Horatio, Osric, Lord,

ALL

1.

2.

3.

Act V, sc. ii, line 239 (p. 273 ) – end PLAY (p. 287) Characters: King, Hamlet, Laertes, Osric, Queen, Horatio, Fortinbras,

Ambassador, ALL

1.

2.

3.

Basic Comprehension Questions for Hamlet - Act I Act I, Scene i

1. Who are Bernardo, Francisco, and Marcellus?

2. What's happening here?

3. Who is Horatio?

4. What happens as the scene progresses?

Act I, Scene ii

5. What is the situation here? What just happened? Why is the court

assembled?

6. Who is Claudius?

7. Who is Gertrude?

8. Who is Laertes?

9. Who is Polonius?

10. Who is Hamlet?

11. What is Laertes' request?

12. What requests are made of Hamlet And are they “granted”?

13. What is this first soliloquy about?

14. What relationship do Hamlet and Horatio have?

Act I, Scene iii

15. What advice does Laertes give Ophelia?

16. What advice does Polonius give Laertes?

17. What advice does Polonius give Ophelia?

Act I, Scene iv

18. What is happening here?

19. How does Hamlet react to what happens?

20. What do Horatio and the others advise Hamlet to do?

21. What does Hamlet do?

Act I, Scene v

22. What does the ghost tell Hamlet?

23. What is Hamlet supposed to do?

24. What is Hamlet going to do in the meanwhile?

Basic Comprehension Questions for Hamlet - Act II

Act II, Scene i

1. What is Polonius asking Reynaldo to do?

2. What has happened to Ophelia?

Act II, Scene ii

3. Who are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

4. What does Voltimand report?

5. Why are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern here?

6. What do the King and Queen agree to?

7. What happens when Hamlet and Polonius meet?

8. What does Hamlet learn from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

9. Who arrives?

10. How does Hamlet respond to the Players?

11. How does Polonius respond to the Players?

12. What plan does Hamlet concoct?

Basic Comprehension Questions for Hamlet - Act III

Act III, Scene i

1) What's happening as the scene opens?

2) What plan do Polonius, the King, and the Queen concoct?

3) What does Hamlet's soliloquy boil down to?

4) What happens between Hamlet and Ophelia?

Act III, Scene ii

5) What is Hamlet discussing?

6) What does Hamlet ask Horatio to do?

7) How does Hamlet act before the play begins?

8) What is the play within a play about?

9) What is the Queen's response?

10) What is the King's response?

11) What do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ask of Hamlet?

12) What does Polonius ask of Hamlet?

Act III, Scene iii

13) What's happening here?

14) How does the King feel?

15) What does Hamlet consider doing?

16) Why doesn't he?

Act III, Scene iv

17) What is Polonius going to do?

18) What does Hamlet do to Polonius fairly soon in the scene?

19) What do Hamlet and the Queen discuss?

20) What interrupts them?

21) What is the Queen going to do?

22) What is Hamlet doing as the scene ends?

Basic Comprehension Questions for Hamlet - Act IV

Act IV, Scene i

1) What is happening in this scene?

Act IV, Scene ii

2) What is happening here?

Act IV, Scene iii

3) What has happened here?

4) What needs to happen quickly?

5) Why does this need to happen quickly?

Act IV, Scene iv


Act IV, Scene v


8) Who has secretly returned to Denmark? Why?

9) What do Laertes and the King agree upon?

10) What is Laertes' response to his sister's condition?

Act IV, Scene vi

11) What happens here?

Act IV, Scene vii

12) What do the King and Laertes decide here?

13) What interrupts them?

14) Who do you suppose was the Norman mentioned in this scene?

15) What news does the Queen bring?

16) What is Laertes' response?

Basic Comprehension Questions for Hamlet - Act V

Act V, Scene i


2) What do Horatio and Hamlet discuss in this scene?

3) Who was Yorick?

4) Whose grave are they digging?

5) Who comes to attend the body?

6) What is Laertes' response to what is happening?

7) What is Hamlet's response to Laertes?

Act V, Scene ii

8) What does Horatio learn from Hamlet here?

9) Who is Osric?

10) What has he come to tell Hamlet?

11) What is Hamlet's response?

12) What is Horatio's response?

13) How does Hamlet greet Horatio?

14) What is Horatio's response?

15) What happens to the Queen?

16) What happens to Hamlet?

17) What happens to Laertes?

18) What happens to the King?

19) What's up with Fortinbras?

Hamlet

Act I Discussion/In-depth analysis questions

On your OWN paper, thoroughly answer the following questions. All answers MUST BE

HANDWRITTEN!

Scene i

1. As the play opens, what is the mood? Looking closely at the text, what words or

phrases can you find that Shakespeare uses to help set the tone and prepare us for

what's to come?

2. Look at what happens when the ghost appears for the first time. Notice that Horatio

addresses it as "thou." This is the form of address used with friends or inferiors.

Shakespeare's audience would have understood this familiar reference. What is the

effect of Horatio's addressing the ghost as "thou"?

3. What does Horatio suggest by his discussion of Julius Caesar's death? Why does he

choose the example of Rome? (think on several levels – i.e. pathetic fallacy;

symbolism; analogy)

Scene ii

4. From what is seen in I.ii, what kind of a king is Claudius?

5. Hamlet is in stark contrast to the festivity of the coronation. Compare and contrast

the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual differences between young Hamlet

and Claudius's court.

6. Read Hamlet's first soliloquy carefully. How would you describe the tone of his feelings

detached, impassioned, rational, ironic, or what? Explain.

7. Notice the way Hamlet questions Horatio, Marcellus, and Bernardo. How much do we

know about how his mind works at this point of the play? What does he suspect as

the reason for the ghost's appearance?

Scene iii

8. How seriously can Polonius' precepts, spoken to Laertes, be taken? Especially

consider the last one. (look at the grander scheme of what is going on)

9. How willing is Ophelia to discuss with her father what she has discussed with Laertes?

What is her father’s response to Hamlet's interest in her and her response to him?

10. What do we know about Laertes, Polonius, and Ophelia by the end of 1.3? What sort

of people are they? What sort of family are they? Who is missing from this family? How

strong-willed in Ophelia? Cite specifics.

Scene iv

11. How does Hamlet respond to the ghost? If it is a "damned ghost," is he as safe as he

thinks he is? Why don't the others want him to go? Why can't/don't they stop him?

What does Marcellus still think the nature of the problem is?

Scene v

12. Is Hamlet surprised when he learns who murdered his father? Explain.

13. What are Hamlet and Hamlet – the elder’s, opinion of Claudius? Would others in the

court, NOT knowing about Claudius' crime, see Claudius as this?

14. Read Hamlet's second soliloquy carefully. Notice how quickly Hamlet moves from the

specific (Claudius) to the general ("one"). Compare the same movement he makes

from the specific person Gertrude to "frailty, thy name is woman". Addressing this issue

(specific to general), how can Hamlet be expected to go about his revenge?

Hamlet

Act II Discussion/In-depth analysis questions


HANDWRITTEN!!!!

Scene i

1. How much time has passed between Act 1 and Act 2? How do you know? (Keep

watching for evidence.)

2. Does Hamlet's appearance to Ophelia as a madman (a distracted lover) come as

a surprise after what we last heard him say (Act I)? Why/why not?

3. How well has Ophelia obeyed her father's orders in 1.3?

Scene ii

4. Why has Claudius called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to court? Does Claudius’

intended use of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern reminiscent of Polonius' use for

Reynaldo? Are there any significant differences? If so, what?

5. We've now had several different explanations of Hamlet's madness: love, his

father's death, and that plus the king and queen’s "o'erhasty marriage". Are

people content with these explanations? Why/why not?

6. How does Hamlet behave initially with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? Is it different

from the way he just acted with Polonius? Does Hamlet change when he realizes

that the two were sent for by Claudius and Gertrude?

7. How seriously should Hamlet's view of the world and of "man" be taken? How do

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern react to Hamlet's use of "generic" man?

8. What is the significance of Hamlet's referring to Polonius as Jephthah? Jephthah's

story is interesting in this context see Judges 11:30-40.

9. How is its style of Hamlet’s recited speech to the player different from that of the

surrounding lines of Hamlet? Why is its subject matter appropriate?

10. Do lines 461-64 echo anything from or about the play Hamlet?

11. When the players arrive, at Hamlet's request they reenact a selection from Aeneas

and Dido. Why this play? How does it echo Hamlet's main storyline.

12. Read Hamlet's third soliloquy carefully. How does he use the player's response to

show how different his own position is? Is the comparison justified by what has

been seen in the play?

13. In his third soliloquy, Hamlet complains that he has not acted on his vengeance.

Why hasn't he? Why does he need the play? What will he learn from it?

14. One of the play's major themes, illusion versus reality, begins to take center stage in

Act 2. Where do you find evidence of this theme being explored? What possible

messages could Shakespeare be trying to convey?

Hamlet

Act III Discussion/In-depth analysis questions


HANDWRITTEN!

Scene i

1. Closely examine Hamlet’s most famous “To be or not to be” soliloquy. Summarize the

arguments he is contemplating in this speech. How is this soliloquy different from the

first two? Think about the way Hamlet's mind works within the first two--is the same

thing happening here? What is the main idea of this third soliloquy?

2. After Polonius gives Ophelia something to read to “disguise her intention” what

response does his remark get (in an aside) from Claudius? Why is this speech of

Claudius' important? What do we learn that we have not learned before?

3. Act III has Hamlet saying some very harsh words to Ophelia. Why does he want her

to get to a nunnery? Does he say this out of love or hate or both? Does Hamlet

know that he's being watched? Does he determine that during the scene? Can you

spot a place where he might? (Remember how he changed his way of talking to

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern at 2.2). Who is the "one" referred to in "all but one"

(3.1.)?

4. How does Claudius respond to what he has seen and heard between Ophelia and

Hamlet? How does Polonius respond? Is he willing to give up his "love" answer? Why?

Scene ii

5. What advice does Hamlet have for the actors? Why? Think outside the play, too!!

6. Why does Hamlet say he especially likes Horatio (3.2.)? Does Hamlet see Horatio as

similar to him or different from him?

7. Read Hamlet's fifth soliloquy carefully. How is it different from the other soliloquies?

What is the mood of the soliloquy? What is happening to Hamlet?

Scene iii

8. What does Claudius admit in his attempt to pray? Has the play actually had an

effect on him? Why can't he ask for forgiveness?

9. What happens when Hamlet enters? Why doesn't Hamlet kill Claudius then? What is

ironic about Hamlet's decision?

10. Why does the Ghost appear during Hamlet’s exchange with his mother? How is his

appearance different from his appearances in Act 1? Who saw him then? Who sees

him now? What is his message to Hamlet?

Hamlet

Act IV Discussion/In-depth analysis questions


HANDWRITTEN!

Scene i

1. Does Gertrude tell Claudius the truth about what happened between her and

Hamlet? Is she following Hamlet's advice at the end of 3.4?

Scene iii

2. What do Claudius' letters tell England (i.e., the king of England) to do with Hamlet?

Why does Claudius expect to be obeyed? (The situation is more or less historical,

since England was ruled by a Danish king from 1016-1042.)

Scene iv

3. What sort of judgment does the Captain make about the place they are fighting for?

How does Hamlet describe it?

4. Read Hamlet's sixth soliloquy carefully (4.4). What is unusual about it given its position

in the play? Has Hamlet been delaying, as he says? What example does he compare

himself to? (And what other soliloquy does this one remind you of?)

Scene v

5. What do we learn about the state of Gertrude's soul in her aside? What does this say

about how she has responded to Hamlet's accusations and recommendations in 3.4?

6. The court assumes Ophelia's madness is caused by her father's death. Judging from

her songs, are they correct? Is that the only thing that has made her mad? What else

is on her mind and coming to the surface in her madness? Hamlet's questionable

madness is starkly contrasted with Ophelia's real madness in Act 4. Was it necessary

for her to go insane? What elements of the story are enhanced by her madness?

Could the story work without it?

7. What is Laertes' approach to revenging his father's death? How does it compare to

Hamlet's? How much support does he have? Whom does he initially blame?

Scene vi

8. Who brings Hamlet's letter to Horatio? What has happened to Hamlet?

Scene vii

9. What does Hamlet's letter tell Claudius? Why does Hamlet want to see him "alone"?

What seems to be Hamlet's plan?

10. What happened to Ophelia? Did she kill herself, or is her death accidental?

General ?s

11. As Act IV unfolds, Claudius is becoming more and more uncomfortable with having

Hamlet around. When/where is Claudius's fear is beginning to take over? How does

he try to get rid of Hamlet, while continuing to look innocent?

12. Hamlet shows a great deal of wit and cleverness in this act. Where can you find

examples of Hamlet's nimble brain?

Hamlet

Act V Discussion/In-depth analysis questions


HANDWRITTEN!

Scene i

1. Why does this scene begin with two clowns trading jokes? Do their jokes make any

sense in the context of the play?

2. Does Hamlet realize that he might not come out of this fight alive? See V.ii.225-238.

3. What is the outcome of the fight scene at the end?

Scene ii

4. Where do Hamlet and Laertes fight in V.ii?

5. Who is Osric, and why is he included in the play?

6. When Gertrude drinks from the cup, Claudius asks her not to drink and she

refuses. Has she ever disobeyed Claudius before?

7. Why is Fortinbras's presence important?

Hamlet

End Play Discussion/In-depth analysis questions


HANDWRITTEN!

1. Describe Claudius. Is he purely evil, or is he merely a flawed human being? Could the

play also be called The Tragedy of Claudius, King of Denmark?

2. In Act IV, Claudius notes that “sorrows come…in battalions.” By the end of the play

these sorrows include the deaths of all the major characters except Horatio. To what

degree can Claudius be held responsible for all the sorrows of the play? Which

sorrows may be particularly traced to Hamlet?

3. Hamlet is full of conflicts that oppose people to other people, to society and to

themselves. List all the conflicts you can find in the play. Decide which of these is the

central conflict and explain your choice.

4. How does Shakespeare demonstrate that Hamlet is a tragedy of the state as well as

the individual ? Is the condition of Denmark better or worse at the end of the play

than at the beginning?

Shakespeare Notes

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