Update Sept. 18

Bellwrite: Use the four-part quotation analysis to make and support a claim about Act I, scene 2 of Hamlet.

Students learned a pattern for presenting textual evidence in support of a claim. I call this pattern the four-part quotation analysis:
1. Claim (1 sentence stating the idea you are proving with the quotation)
2. Background to the quotation (1 sentence telling who is speaking, to whom, at what point in the story)
3. Quotation (Only include as much of the quotation as is needful to prove your point.)
4. Analysis (4-6 sentences examining the quotation: point out specific words which are significant and explain why, show how the quotation supports the claim.)

We then continued reading Hamlet. Students should continue to create a personal index in the covers of the book for motifs and themes.

Class A read up through page 49.
Class B read up through page 55.

Homework: First reading assignment (through page 22) in Fire in the Bones and reading journal are due tomorrow.