Finals Week Schedule

Semester One Finals Schedule

Block, 12.11 & 12 - Storm's a Comin' (the Hamlet one)

• 3PO
• GUM: None. Rather, hold up your journal so I can do a spot check and we can begin Hamlet. 
• Cont. Hamlet and finish with DVD (Mel Gibson version) beginning at 1:25:00ish or so.
• Final (10% of your semester grade): 
• scantron
• many questions will be from Unit 4: Renaissance and Hamlet (and, of course, Leithart). 
• some will cover Units 2, 3, Sight Words and GUM.
• The essay will be on Hamlet and will count toward your quarter 2 grade. 
• ATTENTION: PLEASE BRING YOUR HANDWRITTEN JOURNAL TO YOUR FINAL, SINCE I'M GOING TO LET YOU USE IT AND THE TEXT TO WRITE YOUR ESSAY

• Final Study Guide
• Unit 2: Anglo-Saxons 
• Unit 3: Middle-Ages
• Unit 4: Renaissance
• Hamlet
• Leithart (study your journals) - those who did a very thorough job on them will be blessed. If you did a cursory job, well, the blessing won't be quite so bounteous ; )
• Sight Words (all)
• In my zeal to finish finals, I made it already, printed it, and forgot to add GUM, so there are NO grammar questions on this semester's final exam ; )
• GUM:
• Clauses - subordinate (or dependent) and independent
• Sentences - simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex
• Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
• Fragments
• Parallel Structure

Wednesday, 12.9 - Yah.

• 3PO
• Turn in your sonnets
• Turnitin ID: 8860899 
• Password: Beowulf
• Hamlet

HW:

1. (block) J - Hamlet (Acts 4-5) - see U4: Ren above for link to journal questions (or check Focus)
2. Studying for your final (10% of your semester grade): 
1. scantron
2. many questions will be from Unit 4: Renaissance
3. some will cover Units 2 (Anglo-Saxons), 3 (Middle Ages), Sight Words (all) and GUM.
4. The essay will be on Hamlet and will count toward your quarter 2 grade. 

Tuesday, 12.9 - Crunch Time

• 3PO
• Announcements: 
1. Today is a regular advisory day
2. Please use the U4: Ren (Renaissance) tab above for materials (I finally fixed it).
3. Final (10% of your semester grade): 
1. scantron
2. many questions will be from Unit 4: Renaissance
3. some will cover Units 2, 3, and GUM.
4. The essay will be on Hamlet and will count toward your quarter 2 grade. 
• GUM: 
• EITHER work on your CWP Q2 while I check your journals for Act 3
• OR take this short survey (do this sometime before Friday)
• CWP Q2 Requirements:
1. Artistic copy (original or scanned version of original)
2. Hard copy with attached rubric and name (so I can grade it)
3. Copy submitted to turnitin.com (by the end of the week at the latest)
• Hamlet
• 1 - (3.1.1)
• 2 - (2.2.381)
• 3 - (2.2.240)
• 4 - (2.2.475)
• 5 - (2.2.611)
• 7 - (2.2.445)

HW:

1. (Wed. 12.10) CWP Q2 
1. Artistic copy (original or scanned version of original)
2. Hard copy with attached rubric and name (so I can grade it)
3. Copy submitted to turnitin.com (by the end of the week at the latest)
2. (Block 12.11/12) J - Hamlet (Acts 4-5) Leithart
1. Here is a link to all of the journals

Monday, 12.8 - More Ham Please

Yo gurl! Got me a headache. Got any Advil?

• 3PO
• GUM: 
• EITHER work on your CWP Q2 while I check your journals for Act 2
• OR take this short survey (do this sometime before Friday)
• Hamlet
• 1 - (2.2.332)
• 2 - (2.2.43)
• 3 - (2.2.84)
• 4 - (2.2.238)
• 5 - (2.2.332)
• 7 - (2.2.224)

HW: 

1. (Tues. 12.9) J - Hamlet (Act 3) Leithart
1. Here is a link to them all
2. (Wed. 12.10) CWP Q2 - Senior Sonnet. Don't forget that there is a fine art component to this (it's art "artistically" presented)
3. (Block 12.11/12) J - Hamlet (Acts 4-5) Leithart

Block, 12.4 & 5 - Remember me

Horatio, Hamlet, and the Ghost (Artist: Henry Fuseli 1798)

• 3PO
• Unit 4 Quiz
• Hamlet - Where we last left off
• 1 - (1.5.88)
• 2 - (1.4.1)
• 3 - (1.4.1)
• 4 - (1.4.1)
• 5 - (1.4.63)
• 7 - (1.4.1)

HW:

Upcoming Assignments:

1. (Mon. 12.8) J - Hamlet (Act 2)
2. (Tues. 12.9) J - Hamlet (Act 3)
3. (Wed. 12.10) CWP Q2 - Senior Sonnet
4. (Block 12.11/12) J - Hamlet (Acts 4-5)

Wednesday, 12.3 - Dang, daddy! You scary!

"Dang, daddy, you scary!"

• 3PO
• GUM: Study your Shakespearean Sight Words (left column) for a few minutes before we rock Hamlet, er, before Hamlet rawks us.

• Continue with Hamlet
• P1 (1.3.33) - 28.38
• P2 (1.2.223) - 25.29
• P3 (1.3.1) - 27.14
• P4 (1..3.1) - 27.14
• P5 (1.2.223) - 25.29
• P7 (1.3.1) - 27.14

HW:

1. (Block) Quiz
1. Parallelism
2. Shakespearean Sight Words (left column)
3. Hamlet and Leithart

Upcoming Assignments:

1. (Mon. 12.8) J - Hamlet (Act 2)
2. (Tues. 12.9) J - Hamlet (Act 3)
3. (Wed. 12.10) CWP Q2 - Senior Sonnet
4. (Block 12.11/12) J - Hamlet (Acts 4-5)

Tuesday, 12.2 - Let's finally meet Hamlet . . . the living one ; )

• 3PO
• GUM: Study your Shakespearean Sight Words (left column) or peruse your poem for recitation.
• Finish recitations
• Continue with Hamlet
• P1 (1.2.69) - 16:52
• P2 (1.2.26) - 14:56
• P3 (1.2.26) - 14:56
• P4 (1.2.26) - 14:56
• P5 (1.2.42) - 15:43
• P7 (1.2.26) - 14:56

HW:

1. (Wed) J - Hamlet (Act 1) handwritten in your journal
2. (Block) Quiz
1. Parallelism
2. Shakespearean Sight Words (left column)
3. Hamlet and Leithart

Upcoming Assignments:

1. (Mon. 12.8) J - Hamlet (Act 2)
2. (Tues. 12.10) J - Hamlet (Act 3)
3. (Wed. 12.10) CWP Q2 - Senior Sonnet
4. (Block 12.11/12) J - Hamlet (Acts 4-5)

Monday, 12.1 - Omelet (1.2)

• 3PO
• GUM: 
• review for your poetry recitation
• study your Shakespearean Sight Words (left column)
• Hamlet cont.
• Journal

HW: 

1. (Wed) Hamlet Journal . . . handwritten in your journal (see below)
2. (Block) Quiz
1. Parallelism
2. Shakespearean Sight Words (left column)
3. Hamlet and Leithart

J - Hamlet, Act 1

Read Leithart (pgs. 120-129) and answer the following questions (Remember that Leithart is the PDF posted on GC that you used to do the first Hamlet journal):

1. What dramatic and thematic purposes does young Fortinbras, the young prince of Norway, serve? 
2. Contrast the late King Hamlet (the ghost) with Claudius (his brother and present King of Denmark).
3. What is significant (and ironic) about fathers, particularly about most of the fathers in this drama?
4. Cite two textual examples of how Shakespeare develops the theme that sometimes appearances mask reality.
5. What is the purpose of Shakespeare's "ghosts"?
6. Discuss the important question concerning the "nature" of the ghost (where it comes from) and how we know. 
7. How was King Hamlet killed? What imagery does the ghost use to describe his death, and why is this (biblically) significant?