We’ll examine some of the key themes in Hamlet: Key Ideas in Hamlet and then start reading Act 1 of Hamlet.

If you want feedback on your rough draft of your essay, please have it in to me by Monday.

Please see yesterday’s post for Hamlet introductory information. Then you’ll have time for your essays.

Today we’re going to start by talking about moving beyond the 5 paragraph essay.Beyond the 5 Paragraph Essay

Then you’ll examine the rubric for our essay in small groups to make sure you really understand the assessment criteria ENG 4UEssay Unit Rubric

You will have some time for brainstorming today but we are also going to introduce Hamlet.  hamlet intro note

We’ll begin by watching a short video I made:

Then we will discuss concepts such as tragedy, Elizabethan metaphysics, and the 3 main plots in Hamlet.

If you are absent today, there is a handout you will need to get when you return. You also need to be familiar with this information: Introduction to Hamlet.

Tomorrow I will introduce you to our fun little Hamlet/Twitter exercise. Don’t stress if you’ve never used Twitter before.

For those of you who are planning on submitting the alternate assignment tomorrow, this is how you do it:

1) Go to www.dropitto.me/danikabarker

2) type in the password submit

3) Upload your file.

Today of course we are blogging. Don’t forget to comment on at least two other posts.

Literature circle day!

We’ll start off with silent reading.

Then I’ll have you return to your groups and confirm your answers before re-configuring the groups so you can share your answers with the rest of the class.

We’re going to dig a little deeper into descriptive writing with Descriptive-writing

And then we’ll talk about your culminating task for the essay unit. ENG 4UEssay Unit Rubric

Questions and analysis notes for Politics and the English Language are due today.

You do not need to do an essay outline for the essay of argument since it’s very close to the persuasive essay. The only change of course is that rather than using the techniques of persuasion (appeal to emotion, hyperbole, connotative language, etc.), you may only use logic and reason. IF however, you did not submit your persuasive essay outline, then to avoid a zero you MUST complete the essay of argument outline. A digital copy is available here: Essay of Argument-Outline-

Next we will move on to the descriptive essay. If you were away, please see the following handouts:

Descriptive Essay

On the Road to Berlin

on_the_road_to_berlin_-_questions

Today you will have time to finish reading Politics and the English Language and then complete the analysis notes and questions. These are due tomorrow.

We’re going to start today by taking up the questions for Science and Beauty.

1) When thinking about whether the essay is formal or informal, don’t let the fact that the purpose of the essay might be to teach you make you think it therefore must be formal. Many of you said, it’s for an educated audience so it must be formal. But ask yourself, is this essay written for an audience educated about astronomy?

2) When thinking about the method of organization, let’s return to my “house” analogy. When you think about how a house is organized, you’re thinking about where the contents of the house are placed/stored. ei/ Where is the bathroom? Where is the kitchen? Where are the clothes kept?

When you’re thinking about how an essay is organized, you’re thinking about how/where the author places/stores his/her ideas. It gets tricky though. Because I could write an essay where I want to compare two different ideas, but that doesn’t mean I’d organize the essay that way.

3) USE SPECIFIC EXAMPLES TO SUPPORT YOUR IDEAS.

Science and Beauty Take up

And now… onto today’s work. See yesterday’s post on logical fallacies.

Make up assignment for Unit 1 Test

• Choose a short story from Unit1. It must be a story you did not present on.
• Choose a type of literary criticism to use to examine the text. I recommend Archetypal literary criticism or Feminist literary criticism. (If you want to do Formalist or Reader Response, clear it with me first.)
• Read your short story and analyse it, looking for the key ideas from your chosen critical lens.
• Create a thematic statement: When examining (title of short story) from a (archetypal or feminist) perspective, it becomes clear that the author (is depicting, highlighting, suggesting, concerned with…)
• Write, in approximately 500 words, your analysis that supports this statement.
• Be sure to use specific terms/key words that apply to your theory and use specific evidence from the text.

Due no later than November 20