Both the Eng. 12 classes and the AP Lit. class have been working on a 9-week long unit on Hamlet. It has been a jampacked third quarter, with everything from a fun reading theater style run through of the play, to learning to use the Shakespearean language to track emotional states of specific characters with our fever chart assignments, to doing a close watching of the 1990 Franco Zeffirelli film adaptation of Hamlet starring Mel Gibson. Finally, our last two weeks have been devoted to Writing Workshops in the classroom. So far we have gone through writing a draft to specifically look at the structure of each part of our essays. Time has been spent on knowing and using all of the parts needed to construct a complete introduction, focused body paragraphs, and a powerful conclusion. Today, you are finishing the revision stage of your writing. You must come to class on Monday, March 5th with your completed revised draft of your essay. We will spend Monday working on the proofreading stage, where we fix the errors. This will include grammar, punctuation, formatting, and MLA specific corrections.

On the front board today I posted the exact Works Cited page entries required for this essay. This is the correct information that you should have been able to pull from your MLA practice templet for both the play and the movie we watched.

Next week’s schedule will be as follows for both classes:

Eng. 12

Monday – Proofreading and Final Essay published through Turnitin

Tuesday – Reflection timed writing Essay done in class and published through Turnitin 

Wednesday – Scrabble 

Thursday & Friday – Class Logo for Blog Challenge 

AP Literature

Monday – Proofreading and Final Essay published through Turnitin

Tuesday – Final Hamlet AP Multiple Choice Exam

Wednesday – Reflection timed writing Essay done in class and published through Turnitin

Thursday – Introduction to Author Study Project

Friday – Introduction to A Raisin in the Sun Unit

For all classes, the grading period ends on Friday, March 9th.