TODAY IN CLASS
1) Collected the Act 3, Scene 4 "imagery" assignment.  (See yesterday's post for details.)

2) Handed out the Act 4 Study Guide.  It is due on Monday.  Read the questions for each section, read that section of the play and answer the questions, then move on to the next section.

3) Students tracked "tone" in the Hamlet / Gertrude conversation.  What is the exact tone or attitude each one expresses along the way?  The precise term (or even phrase) isn't as important to agree on as the general shifts that both participants experience in their own mood, in their self-insight/self-perception, and in their attitude towards the other person.

4) Then we watched the whole scene from the David Tennant version and all (or most) from the 1990 Mel Gibson / Glenn Close film.

5) Finally, students wrote a short (8 minutes or so) summary of their own reactions to or opinions of the two versions.

FOR TOMORROW
Get started on Act 4.  I will not check progress specifically for tomorrow, but remember that the completed study guide is due on Monday.  If you were absent today and don't have the hand-out yet, at least start reading Act 4.