TODAY IN CLASS
We had a short timed write, looking at the end of Act II from the point of view of Hamlet and one other assigned character (Claudius, Gertrude, Polonius, or Ophelia).  The title was "What's on my plate?" and the idea was to write a short first-person journal entry that would lay out everything facing that character at the end of Act II.
We discussed Hamlet's qualities of character as we see them at this point (#28 of the guide, but the idea was to be as complete as possible; and in our discussion, we considered the evidence for all traits mentioned).
Also, I collected the Act II Study Guides.

Then in 1st and 2nd we read the first part of Act III up to Hamlet's "To be or not to be . . . " soliloquy; we'd gotten that far yesterday in 5th.  In 1st and 2nd we need to discuss the imagery of Polonius' self-incriminating statement as well as the King's aside--we ALMOST got done with that in 5th.

FOR TOMORROW
1st period--you received a copy of the soliloquy.  Read it, and annotate it, please.  You can wait for class to do the paraphrase if you wish.

2nd and 5th--we ran out of time and you did NOT receive the copy.  You would still be wise to read it carefully tonight, but you can annotate at the start of class tomorrow.