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This a blog for Mr. James Cook's eleventh grade honors English class at Gloucester (MA) High School. Remember what Northrup Frye writes in _Fearful Symmetry_, "No one can begin to think straight unless [she or] he has a passionate desire to think and an intense joy in thinking."
This a blog for Mr. James Cook's eleventh grade honors English class at Gloucester (MA) High School. Remember what Northrup Frye writes in _Fearful Symmetry_, "No one can begin to think straight unless [she or] he has a passionate desire to think and an intense joy in thinking."
The Gloucester Project (a.k.a. The Cape Ann Arts & Culture Multigenre Writing Project)
Due dates
Tues. 6/1 final draft of thesis-based research paper with in-text citations and works cited (test grade)
Tues. 6/1 final draft of annotated bibliography with ten citations and annotations (test grade)
Fri. 6/4 final draft of personal experience essay (essay on a personal experience related to your topic, evaluated for narration, description, and reflection) (test grade)
Fri. 6/11 final draft of creative writing genres (three poems and a one act play or short story) (test grade)
Fri. 6/18 FINAL 12:30 at Stage Fort Park (if raining GHS Library) turn in Multigenre paper, meet in groups to create presentation, and present. (Final Exam Grade)
Already Turned In
Fri. 5/21 question and tentative thesis (homework)
Responses to "Ways of Looking at Gloucester" packet (etc.) (homework)
Draft of seven citations and annotations with notes (seven homeworks)
Draft of two citations and annotations with notes (two homeworks)
Quotation Response Journal (on a Gloucester Narrative) (test grade)
Your Map of Gloucester (homework)
Response to Polis Is This (documentary about Charles Olson) (homework)
Tues. 6/1 final draft of thesis-based research paper with in-text citations and works cited (test grade)
Tues. 6/1 final draft of annotated bibliography with ten citations and annotations (test grade)
Fri. 6/4 final draft of personal experience essay (essay on a personal experience related to your topic, evaluated for narration, description, and reflection) (test grade)
Fri. 6/11 final draft of creative writing genres (three poems and a one act play or short story) (test grade)
Fri. 6/18 FINAL 12:30 at Stage Fort Park (if raining GHS Library) turn in Multigenre paper, meet in groups to create presentation, and present. (Final Exam Grade)
Already Turned In
Fri. 5/21 question and tentative thesis (homework)
Responses to "Ways of Looking at Gloucester" packet (etc.) (homework)
Draft of seven citations and annotations with notes (seven homeworks)
Draft of two citations and annotations with notes (two homeworks)
Quotation Response Journal (on a Gloucester Narrative) (test grade)
Your Map of Gloucester (homework)
Response to Polis Is This (documentary about Charles Olson) (homework)
Cape Ann
from afar
Hamlet (O Cursed spite / that ever I was born to set it right)
Current Assignments:
Analysis of motif through 3.2. Due Wednesday 3/23.
Comic strip for beginning through 3.2. Due Tuesday 3/22.
Analyze film versions of 3.2 (Murder of Gonzago / Mousetrap) Due Monday 3/21
Analyze film versions of 3.1 soliloquy (Past due.)
Analyze 2.2 soliloquy (Past due.)
Analyze 1.2 soliloquy (Past due.)
Assignments from previous unit:
Write a dystopia of your own.
In class essay on how Huxley satirizes paternalistic, technological utilitarianism in Brave New World.
Read 241-268 (end). Due Friday 2/12.
Read pages 217-240. Due Wednesday 2/10.
Vocabulary quiz on Wednesday 2/10.
Read pages 146-216. Due Tuesday 2/9.
Post responses to chapter 4 through chapter five part two (p. 55-99) and to chapter five part three through chapter nine (p. 99-145) by class time on Monday 2/8.
Past Assignments:
Read pages 99-145. Due Friday 2/5.
Read pages 57-99. Due Wednesday 2/3.
Use vocabulary words in sentences with context clues. Due Tuesday 2/2.
Finishing reading chapter 3. Due Monday 2/1.
Read chapter 2 of Brave New World. Write a letter or diary entry about the tour of the conditioning section of the Central London Hatcheries and Condition Centre. Due Friday 1/29.
Read chapter 1 of Brave New World. Write a letter or diary entry about the tour of the hatchery section of the Central London Hatcheries and Condition Centre. Due Thursday 1/28.
Write an open response to an assertion made in the second half of The Ad and the Ego. Due Wednesday 1/27.
Write an open response to an assertion made in the first half of The Ad and the Ego. Due Tuesday 1/26.
Analysis of motif through 3.2. Due Wednesday 3/23.
Comic strip for beginning through 3.2. Due Tuesday 3/22.
Analyze film versions of 3.2 (Murder of Gonzago / Mousetrap) Due Monday 3/21
Analyze film versions of 3.1 soliloquy (Past due.)
Analyze 2.2 soliloquy (Past due.)
Analyze 1.2 soliloquy (Past due.)
Assignments from previous unit:
Write a dystopia of your own.
In class essay on how Huxley satirizes paternalistic, technological utilitarianism in Brave New World.
Read 241-268 (end). Due Friday 2/12.
Read pages 217-240. Due Wednesday 2/10.
Vocabulary quiz on Wednesday 2/10.
Read pages 146-216. Due Tuesday 2/9.
Post responses to chapter 4 through chapter five part two (p. 55-99) and to chapter five part three through chapter nine (p. 99-145) by class time on Monday 2/8.
Past Assignments:
Read pages 99-145. Due Friday 2/5.
Read pages 57-99. Due Wednesday 2/3.
Use vocabulary words in sentences with context clues. Due Tuesday 2/2.
Finishing reading chapter 3. Due Monday 2/1.
Read chapter 2 of Brave New World. Write a letter or diary entry about the tour of the conditioning section of the Central London Hatcheries and Condition Centre. Due Friday 1/29.
Read chapter 1 of Brave New World. Write a letter or diary entry about the tour of the hatchery section of the Central London Hatcheries and Condition Centre. Due Thursday 1/28.
Write an open response to an assertion made in the second half of The Ad and the Ego. Due Wednesday 1/27.
Write an open response to an assertion made in the first half of The Ad and the Ego. Due Tuesday 1/26.
The Tragical History of Hamlet
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On this blog you will find notes, links, and assignments for Mr. J. Cook's eleventh grade honors English class.
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"This must be known, which, being kept close, might move
More grief to hide then hate to utter love."
2.1.118-119
In this quote, Polonious is speaking to Ophelia about Hamlet. She was explaining to her father about how Hamlet had just entered her room completly hysterical.
"Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced; No hat upon his head...with a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors—he comes before me..."
Polonious is convinced that Hamlet is crazy with love for Ophelia. Hamlet had wrote her letters, but she sent them back and told him he wasn't allowed to see her anymore. Polonious blames Hamlet's behavior on his suspicions and old age. He tells Ophelia they need to go and tell the king what he has done before it gets out of hand.
This quotation is connected to the motif "words" because Polonious is telling Ophelia that they have to go and explain to the king why Hamlet is acting crazy. Speaking to the king is the connection to the motif.
"And more above, hath his solicitings, As they fell out by time, by means, and place, All given to mine ear."
2.2.116-118
In this quote, Polonious had just read a letter to Queen Gertrude and King Claudius; a letter from Hamlet to Ophelia. Hamlet had tried writing her a poem but is apparently terrible at it. He then just expresses his true feelings of love for her. After she recieved the letter, Ophelia brought it right to Polonious, who, in turn, showed it to the king and queen.
This quote is connected to the motif because Ophelia tells her father everytime Hamlet tries to court her. Where, when and what he says to her.
The signifigance of these two quotes is that Hamlet is using writing and speaking as a way of getting Ophelia's attention. Then, Polonious and Ophelia go behind his back and tell the king and queen.
For the first quote: Why does think that it is his fault Hamlet has gone crazy?
And for the second: Why does Ophelia and Polonious betray him and tell the king and queen everything he does?
"My honored lord, you know right well you did, And with them words of so sweet breath composed As made {the} things more rich." (3.1.106-108)
This is Ophelia speaking to Hamlet. Hamlet just delivered the "To be, or not to be" soliloquy and then Ophelia comes in. She is telling him how she misses him but he rejects her and that is when she says this.
I think in the quote she is saying that his words, although they come from his sweet mouth, are still lies. Also she wants him to just accept the complements that she is giving.
After she says this he questions her loyalty and further pushes her away.
This section confuses me because of how Hamlet rejects Ophelia. At the end of the book when Ophelia is dead he says that he loved her more than 40,000 brothers combined could have. But here he is telling her to back off, even when she is telling him to take it back.
"I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labored much How to forget that learning." (5.2.38-39)
Hamlet is speaking to Horatio about the trip to England and the pirate ship. In this quote he is informing Horatio that he found out about the plot against his life through letters he carried with him from Claudius. The dialogue continues with him saying that he forged new letters (which is why he explains that he has excelent writing) that say to kill Rosencrantz and Guildenstern when they arrive in England.
"His purse is empty already; all 's golden words are spent." (5.2.143-144)
In this scene a man named Osric entered the room while Hamlet and Horatio are speaking. Osric is very excentric in that he waves his hat around, and trys to say very sophisticated and impressive words. Before Osric can deliver his message to the two Hamlet decides to shoot him down and basically explain that knowing big words doesn't make you a smarter person.
Hamlet starts retorting with very high level words such as "extolment", "semblable", and "umbrage". Osric is impressed and when they further question him and he starts to answer in very short phrases like "of Laertes?". that is when Horatio says this quote to Hamlet so that Osric can't hear it. It is as if they have gotten him and then they will hear what news he brings.
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" Words, words, words."
2.2.110+
In this quote Hamlet is speaking to Polonius. Hamlet is now trying to convince people he is mad so when Polonis approaches him while reading, Hamlet pretends to not know him. Polonius questions Hamlet about what he is reading and Hamlet replies with " Words. words, words." Polonius asks " What is the matter my lord?" and Hamlet replies "Between who?" Polonius then says " I mean the matter that you read, my lord?" Polonius thinks that Hamlet is crazy yet there is some sort of method to why he is acting like his is. The connection to the motif words is that literally Hamlet is reading words in a book. When Hamlet is telling Polonius what the words mean I think he is making fun of Polonius because he is saying what the old men write is slander. Then as he describes the old men he basically uses these words to describe Polonius. Hamlet is using word play to make Polonius believe he is mad.
"Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Most like a whore, unpack my heart with words."
This quote is spoken by Hamlet in a soliloquy. Hamlet has just seen players or actors and is captivated by how the actor can act emotions he does not feel. Yet he himself can not act out these emotions even though he has a reason to. Hamlet is cursing himself and he says that he needs to seek revenge yet all he can do is curse like a whore does and not take any action.
In this quote Hamlet can find words but can not find the action that he is looking for. Hamlet wants to seek revenge, and be a man, yet all he can do is "curse" or speak and use his words instead of weapons. In this soliloquy Hamlet shows his frustration with himself and how unhappy he is with the way that he himself is as a person.
I think that Shakespeare uses the words motif in these two quotes to show how Hamlet is a confused boy. Also that he is not a person who wants to kill to get revenge. In the last quote we see that he describes Polonius using tricky wording as a old man. Hamlet is getting some sort of revenge just not the revenge of murder.
Two Questions
Does Polonius think that Hamlet completely crazy or smart?
What words does Hamlet use to describe others?
"there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak."
In this quote Hamlet is speaking to Guildernstern. This is directly after the "mosetrap" play in which Hamlet made a rise out of Clauius by having actors act out his murder. Guildernstern is trying to pry information from Hamlet about his behavior to inform the King. Hamlet asks Guildernstern to play a pipe for him. When Guildernstern replies that he does not know how to play a pipe Hamlet says you cannot make this small instument speak. Hamlet rebuttles to Guildern saying he cannot play the pipe with well you are certainly playing me.
Hamlet again is using words to "speak daggers" to Guildernstern. Hamlet is calling Guilderntern out on his betrayls rather then harming him. Shakesphere uses words intertwined with action vs inaction. Hamlet says to Guildernstern you can not ger this intrument to speak yet you are trying to get me to speak.
"Pray let's have no words of this"
4.5.51
At this point in the story Hamlet has killed Ophelia's father Polonius. Ophelia has learned about his death and now has gone insane. When Ophelia talks about death Claudius says that this is about her father. Then Ophelia says lets not have any words about that.
Ophelia does not want to speak of her fathers death. Most likely because that is the cuase of her madness. Ophelia who has spoken much throughout the entire play is now the most boistrus she has ever been now that she is not contained by her fathers demands to be a lady.
"And let me speak to (th')yet unknowing world"
5.2.421
In this final scene everyone has been killed. Claudius, Gertrude, Laertes, and Hamlet have all been killed in the plan to kill Hamlet with a poisoned sword and a poisoned drinking cup. As everyone is dead and Fortinbras has entered and will be taking over as King he inquires to know what happend. Horatio friend of Hamlet says that he will tell the world the story of the awful thing that has happend.
This quote represents the word motif because at the end of everthing Horatio will use words to tell the awful story. Instead of revenge he wants everyone to know what happend to his closest loved ones. Horatio shortly before contimplating suicide decides to speak instead of killing himself.
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