What about Hamlet’s strange outburst during the play-within-the-play? He yells, “Get on with it, murderer. The croaking raven doth bellow for revenge!” It is an odd line and seems out of place. But what has actually happened is that Shakespeare has played a number of jokes simultaneously with this very pregnant line:
He is making fun [...]
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Here is Ed’s list that he just couldn’t stop compiling. The human is a very varied animal, no? What do you think? Are there more? And should all of these be counted?
Agitation
Alert
Anger
Annoyance
Anxiety
Apathy
Arrogant
Atomic
Baffled
Balanced
Bitterness
Bliss
Boastful
Boredom
Brilliance
Brave
Calm
Cheerful
Conceited
Concerned
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Here’s a little clip of what we saw today, to give you an idea of what we might be looking for… Enjoy
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Period 4
To start things off, I fail!!! Strike that, I failed. Yeah, I forgot I was the scribe today until halfway through the period. Woot! Also, the whole bottom of my backpack got drenched at dive practice from the cold wet ground. Huzzah! Now all my stuff is wet, but it has motivated me to [...]
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Here are different takes to pose the question of staging and blocking. And with the film medium, there’s another character: the camera. All of this must be kept in the mind when working out a scene. Here are three forms of Hamlet’s famous “soliloquy.” The first is from my favorite version, [...]
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Period 4
Hi Period 4!
So today we started out class by going over yesterday’s daily worksheet. It was a passage from The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. The tone of this passage was condescending and arrogant because even when Tan knew that she was messing up on a few notes, she still found her playing [...]
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Period 5
Today started off pretty slow with two tone worksheets that we worked on for a few minutes before Eldridge told us to do them for homework, and we then talked about Hamlet for the rest of the period. Mr. E wants the scribe notes to have better notes on our Hamlet discussions so here [...]
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As now many of you know (not necessarily relish, but know in a sad way), you have been flying blind. You have very little of the nuts and bolts to build much of anything resembling comprehension. Your plentiful lack of vocabulary knowledge has led many of you to waste your efforts in simply reading words, [...]
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Period 4
Well, firstly, everyone came into the room in their usual chatty fashion and checked out the new extra credit that was on the board. It turns out this week’s is quite easy if you just say a few obvious body parts outloud to yourself. Once the bell rang, Mr. Egdirdle killed everyone inside by [...]
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in the interest of improving everyone’s comprehension of the play, and to expose us to the art of direction, I am going to screen Kenneth Brannagh’s version of Hamlet.
It will be shown in two parts. The first part we will screen on Thursday, Feb, 19 at 3p. Then we will watch part 2 [...]
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