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Unit 3 Session 2

Welcome to Unit 3 Session 2! In this unit we’ll continue with our study of Hamlet. You’ll read Acts 2 & 3 of the play, show your understanding with a quiz, interpret the play through a gender lens, study Hamlet's most famous soliloquy, and expand your knowledge by completing a class wiki.

Here are a few essential questions we'll consider in this session:

What was the author trying to make us feel, see, and believe?
Why consider the viewpoints in a text? How does reading help me understand others’ experiences?
How do I determine what information to retain, remove, combine and restate when note-taking?
How does note-taking help me summarize and synthesize the message or theme of literary work(s)?
What are my options for stretching, compressing, and focusing my interpretations of an author’s message or theme? Is one option better than the others? Why or why not?
How do the generalizations and conclusions that I form and draw from various literary works stretch, compress, and focus my perspective?

In this session:

-You will read and comprehend Acts 2 and 3 of Hamlet.

-You will summarize information from Acts 2 and 3 of Shakespeare’s Hamlet that includes alternate views, rich detail, well-developed paragraphs, and lines of logic.

-You will synthesize information to determine the messages or themes of Hamlet and explain why they are still important today.

-You will use note-taking techniques to organize information for summarizing and synthesizing Act 2 & Act 3 in Hamlet.

-You will analyze and relate Hamlet through the perspective of gender theory.

Let’s get started!