The Blog--Sorry about this week's lapses

TODAY IN CLASS
Frame essays turned in.  Looking forward to reading them.  Some fun titles.
Quiz that focussed mostly on early part of Hamlet.  (Expect to make it up as you walk in the door tomorrow.)
Some discussion of driving forces of the Renaissance/Reformation era and their connection to ideas/issues in Hamlet.

FOR TOMORROW
Well, if you hadn't finished the play, you have sort of an additional opportunity . . . but be forewarned that tomorrow's assessment will focus mostly on Acts III-V.  But it still shouldn't consume too much of the clas period.

Look over the "agenda speech" in which Claudius makes a series of announcements to the assembled court.  This at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 2 (or Act I, Scene ii if you are a traditionalist).  Look closely at the language, the rhetoric--this is no different from what you did so much of in AP Language.