october 20

JOURNAL TOPIC: [today's tunes: "Ghost Radio" by The Brian Setzer Orchestra; "The Payback" by James Brown]

A close study of revenge quickly reveals two schools of thought: 1) Revenge is righteous and/or fulfilling, and 2) Revenge keeps wounds from healing and-- however appealing or even cathartic it may seem-- ultimately destroys every party to it. How do you see the concept of revenge? How do you see the effects of revenge played out in the world? What do you think Hamlet should do now that he knows Claudius poisoned his father?

AGENDA:
1. Act I Scene iv
2. Act I Scene v
4. Journal

HW:
1. Recite
2. "To
3. Be
4. Or
5. Not
6. To
7. Be" soliloquy
8. by Thursday, October 30
9.*Vocab this week will be taken from your suggestions in Hamlet; please post candidate words in comments to this post.
10. Start thinking of a story from your life that no one else (at least in this community) has heard.