Monday, December 01, 2008

Homework for the week of 12/1/2008

Monday, December 1, 2008:
Journal Entries:Characterize yourself as a "thinker" or a "doer." In this respect what character in the play are you most like? How would you like to be different, or would you like to be different?
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Journal Entry: To what extent do parents have the right to "spy" on their children? What circumstances might allow or prevent this?
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Write about a time when you discovered that someone was purposefully plotting against you for some reason. Explain the situation. How you felt, how it turned out.
Complete reading Act III.
Thursday, December 4, 2008:
Find 5 citations from the text to support the following idea: Hamlet searches contiusously for the answer to the question of whether or not he should avenge his father's death. His concern with right and wrong in religious, moral, and political terms causes him much inner turmoil.
Friday, December 5, 2008:
Find 5 citations to support the following idea: Hamlet's sanity or insanity has baffled critics for years. Even the characters in the play discuss in consistencies in Hamlet's behavior, sometimes assuming he is really insane, at other times amazed by the clarity of his thought. Read Act IV by Monday.

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