Man ... what a drag

OK ... I show up with 20 copies of the textbook ... and at the counting ... I've got 16 of each...

which means four of you characters grabbed your textbooks and didn't bring them back.

Man, that's a drag...

Character sketches

Ok ... no just click and paste here...

Fortinbras Character Sketch
Fortinbras is the current prince of Norway who is very power hungry and one who acts in violence before thinking. He is compared to Hamlet in the fact that he lost his father (who was king of Norway) and is not given the throne. Fortinbras doesn’t react the same way Hamlet does and begins a war with everyone he can take over. At first he seems loyal to his uncle and listens when he is told to not attack Denmark, but he is also an impatient man and eventually gets tired of doing nothing over his father’s death. He takes over Denmark, becomes king and gets what he wanted from the start.

(done by Lucas, posted by Chesser

Claudius
•King of Denmark
•Murdered his brother, Hamlet Sr., in order to obtain the throne
•Married Gertrude, his brother’s widow
•Creates a plan with Laertes to kill Hamlet Jr. after discovering Hamlet’s knowledge of his role in his father’s death
•Killed by Hamlet Jr. at the end of the play

Ophelia:

- Hamlet's girlfriend
- Her father is Polonius
- She is not allowed to date Hamlet anymore.
- She goes crazy when her father is killed.
She drowns


Polonius
- He is foolish character.
- He is winded and dull
- A Danish lord
- He is the father of Laertes and Ophelia
- Stabbed in the gut by Hamlet as he hides behind a screen
- Polonius is the father of Laertes and Ophelia
- Been a government bureaucrat for many years.
- Polonius is a wealthy, elderly man.
Polonius treats his children, especially Ophelia, as property he owns, and he doesn't show loving parental feelings for them.

Gertrude

-Hamlets mother
-Married to Claudius
-Widower/newlywed
-Older, attractive, noble Queen
-No longer loves Claudius when she find out he murdered her husband, the former king
-Dies at the end of the play, poisioned

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern:
- Two slightly bumbling persons.
- Former friends of Hamlet from Wittenberg.
- work for Claudius and Gertrude to spies Hamlet.
- No longer treated as friends by Hamlet.
They were killed in England


Here is the sketch on Laertes:

Laertes
Laertes is the son of Polonuius and brother of Ophelia. He is a young man. He is a exemple of action of little thought. Laertes is also notable for his excessive "love" for Ophelia.He killed the Hamlet with a poisoned sword to avenge the deaths of his father and sister,while he was dying of the same poison.He is an emotional person (he implicates king Claudius and he forgives Hamlet).He spends most of his time abroad at college.

hmmm "stranger and stranger!" ... I live technology...

here's Hamlet:

Hamlet

-obscure,abstract,attentive,bold,careless,
passionate
-university student
-returns home to bury his father
-disgusted by his mothers quick marriage to his uncle
-fixated on proving his uncles guilt


Whoa, something else is been done in ... hmmmmm ... anyway, here's Horatio:

Horatio:
Horatio is Hamlets close friend and companion, he helps hamlet through out the play.through Horatio characters gain credibility because he trusts, believes, and understands all the other characters in the play. Horatio is the sole person on who Hamlet can rely on. Horatio serves the role of retelling how the play came to end.

Friday June 24

The nitty gritty... gotta love it. Last Friday of the course, of the school year ... and we finished Hamlet. He died. Lots of others, too.

After that we did the character sketches ... which should be on the last post as comments. The we worked on the culminating activity on our respective blogs.

S'all good. Monday looks awesomer now.

Please have a safe weekend. Come back Monday feeling strong so we can finish the course well.

just testing ... hold on .. and today

Wherefore Shakespearience from call4pchelp on Vimeo.

I posted that video to show the "embedding" idea to someone in the class. I'm also liking that they had some "digital troubleshooting skills" - something that was expressed far better than I could in an email I got the other day.

We did the part one of Hamlet's test today, and I got marking and handing back stuff, by the end of class. I did also manage to get a mark update done, too.

We went into the computer lab and worked on the Hamlet blog presentations and or the Culminating Activity. Whoa, did that also feel good in writing. Time is short.

People, people, people ... hand stuff in to be marked. Or your marks will resemble this:




Ok this is weird ... hmmm ...

Here is the sketch on Laertes:

Laertes
Laertes is the son of Polonuius and brother of Ophelia. He is a young man. He is a exemple of action of little thought. Laertes is also notable for his excessive "love" for Ophelia.He killed the Hamlet with a poisoned sword to avenge the deaths of his father and sister,while he was dying of the same poison.He is an emotional person (he implicates king Claudius and he forgives Hamlet).He spends most of his time abroad at college.

hmmm "stranger and stranger!" ... I live technology...

here's Hamlet:

Hamlet

-obscure,abstract,attentive,bold,careless,
passionate
-university student
-returns home to bury his father
-disgusted by his mothers quick marriage to his uncle
-fixated on proving his uncles guilt


Whoa, something else is been done in ... hmmmmm ... anyway, here's Horatio:

Horatio:
Horatio is Hamlets close friend and companion, he helps hamlet through out the play.through Horatio characters gain credibility because he trusts, believes, and understands all the other characters in the play. Horatio is the sole person on who Hamlet can rely on. Horatio serves the role of retelling how the play came to end.

June 21

I forgot that it was the summer solstice until just now. What is that you ask?

Hey man, here is the link that will explain it all.

Sooo... what did we do today?

We finished Act II from Hamlet, that's what. S'all good. I keep asking the question: "Is it important that you know what every word means in Hamlet? I'm hoping you are getting the message.

Or the massage. Dunno.

I assigned some questions for tomorrow ... when Part I of Hamlet is due. If you are behind in you assignments, now is the time to catch up, man.

Culminating Activity was worked on after the break, or people also worked on their Hamlet Blog presentations. I'm looking forward to them, as people are "getting into them".

This was from the Poetry Cafe. That was delicious.

Today we did Act Ii from Hamlet - things are starting to cook in that play, I tells ya... and we got 4, 15,16,17 and 18 from the question sheet for homework.

Then. ... we got introduced to the Culminating Activity for this course. It looks awesome.

OK, later. I'm off for leftover Ice Cream cake....

Thursday June 16

OK today we took a look at the first scene of Hamlet, finished off the Blog post presentations and did the rest of the 1984 blog post and the poeT presentations.

That sounds simple, but man, it was a lot of work that went going on today.

Lots of new ideas about 1984, too. Interesting stuff there, to be honest. Some interesting ideas about the book and where it took you, Thanks.

I updated the due dates for Hamlet, part one. I did assign the first three questions for homework tonight, too.

Oh, the last thing I will post here is this youtube video about presentations: