Date

Activity        

Reading

Due

7/22

Course overview

Introduction to Hamlet, adaptation, and passage analysis

Complete Student Survey in class

7/26

Discuss Hamlet and passage analyses

Introduction to character analysis

Hamlet, Act 1 (5-69), “Shakepeare’s Hamlet” (xiii-xiv), and “Shakespeare’s Life” (xxiv-xxxiii)

Class Preparation Activity: Act 1 passage analysis; bring in hard copy and electronic format

7/27

Discuss Hamlet and character analyses

Hamlet, Act 2 (71-119)

Class Preparation Activity: Acts 1-2 character analysis; bring in hard copy and electronic format

7/28

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Discuss Hamlet and passage analyses

Hamlet Scene Staging Essay assigned

Hamlet, Act 3 (121-185); "'The Cheer and Comfort of Our Eye': Hamlet and Surveillance” (311-316)

Class Preparation Activity: Act 3 passage analysis; bring in two electronic formats

7/29

Discuss Hamlet and character analyses

Discuss approaches to scene staging essay

Hamlet, Act 4 (187-235); “Speaking the Unspeakable: Hamlet and Memory” (316-320)

Class Preparation Activity: Act 3-4 character analysis; bring in two electronic formats

8/2

Discuss Hamlet and character and passage analyses

Optional post-class screening:Hamlet (Olivier, 1948)

Hamlet, Act 5 (237-287); "'To Tell My Story’: Unfinished Hamlet" (320-322); "'The Undiscovered Country’: Hamlet and the Secrets of Death" (323-326)

Class Preparation Activity: Act 5 character or passage analysis; bring in two electronic formats

8/3

Screen Hamlet Goes Business (Kaurismäki, 1987)

Discuss sample scene staging essays

Group Hamlet adaptation presentation assigned

Class Preparation Activity: Response to discussion question on Hamlet Goes Business due by 10:00 p.m. via GoPost

8/4

Discuss Hamlet Goes Business (Kaurismäki, 1987)

Film Comparison Essay assigned

8/5

Hamlet (Olivier, 1948)

Work with scene staging writing plans

Film Comparison Essay assigned

T.S. Eliot, “Hamlet and His Problems”

8/7-8/8

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Weekend homework: watch assigned Hamlet film, develop discussion questions for group meeting, and consider which scene(s) you want to focus on for your presentation. If you did not attend the screening, watch Olivier's Hamlet

8/9

Discuss assigned film and polish group presentation

Almereyda, Hamlet (2000); Branagh, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1996); Doran, Hamlet (2009); Kozintsev, Gamlet (1964); Kurosawa, The Bad Sleep Well (1960); or Zeffirelli, Hamlet (1990)

8/10

Hamlet adaptation presentations

8/11

Discuss Gertrude and Claudius

Updike, Gertrude and Claudius, 3-78

Class Preparation Activity: Response to discussion question on Gertrude and Claudius due by 10:00 p.m. via GoPost

8/12

Discuss Gertrude and Claudius and sample film comparison essays

Work with film comparison writing plans

Gertrude and Claudius Analysis assigned

Gertrude and Claudius, 79-123

Film comparison essay writing plan; bring in two electronic formats

8/13

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Film Comparison Essay due by 10:00 p.m. via Collect It

8/16

Discuss Gertrude and Claudius

Updike, Gertrude and Claudius, 123-210

Class Preparation Activity: Instant draft of Gertrude and Claudius analysis due by 10:00 p.m. via GoPost

8/17

Discuss Gertrude and Claudius analysis instant drafts

Gertrude and Claudius Analysis due by 10:00 p.m. via Collect It

8/18

Revision Workshop: Using Feedback to Revise for Content

In-class writing, peer review, and revision conferences

1-2 graded essays that you would like to revise or that you have already begun revising; bring in preferred format

8/19

Revision Workshop: Revising for Style

In-class writing, peer review, and revision conferences

In-class self assessment

1-2 graded essays that you have revised for content; bring in preferred format

8/20

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1-2 revisions due by 10:00 p.m. via Collect It