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The Tragedy of Hamlet: A Primer: Unit Topic: Hamlet English IV Grade 12 Prepared By: Jacob Fitterer

This document provides an overview and lesson plan for teaching Shakespeare's play Hamlet. It addresses standards, defines key terms like tragic hero and flaw, outlines major themes like justice vs revenge and illusion vs reality, and discusses elements like settings, imagery, and Hamlet's character. Activities include analyzing scenes, making personal connections to themes, exploring imagery and popular adaptations. The goal is to primer students on understanding the tragedy.

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The Tragedy of Hamlet: A Primer: Unit Topic: Hamlet English IV Grade 12 Prepared By: Jacob Fitterer

This document provides an overview and lesson plan for teaching Shakespeare's play Hamlet. It addresses standards, defines key terms like tragic hero and flaw, outlines major themes like justice vs revenge and illusion vs reality, and discusses elements like settings, imagery, and Hamlet's character. Activities include analyzing scenes, making personal connections to themes, exploring imagery and popular adaptations. The goal is to primer students on understanding the tragedy.

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The Tragedy of Hamlet: A Primer

 Unit Topic: Hamlet


 English IV
 Grade 12
 Prepared by:
Jacob Fitterer
Standards Addressed Within This
Lecture Content
RL.11-12.3: Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how
to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story
is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced
and developed).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.R.11-12.3: Analyze how and why individuals,
events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
What do you think happened in this scene?

Let’s go one step further: what can we infer from the props utilized in this scene and the
costume design?

Does the depiction of Hamlet here reflect modern day? How do you deal with your
sadness/grief?
Renaissance Concepts
The Great Chain of Being
King as:
A great wheel
A microcosm
The Great Chain of Being
(Simplified)
Definitions
 Asidefrom the themes we will
explore today, here are other
important elements to keep in mind:
Tragic hero
Tragic flaw
Tragedy
Comedy
Three Plot Threads

GhostStory
Detective Story
Revenge Story
Setting of Denmark & Elsinore
King= microcosm of Denmark
Denmark as prison
World as garden of Eden
Major Themes
Justice vs Revenge
Illusion vs Reality
Ghost or Devil
King or murderer
Now You Try!
Name at least two major
themes in Shakespeare’s
Hamlet.
What personal
connection allowed you
to recall those themes?
Honest Man in Corrupt Society

Father Son
Archetype
Ghost and Hamlet
Past and Present
Death
 “To be or not to be…”
 All fathers must die
 Worm food imagery
 Gravedigger’s scene and
Yorick
 Final scene and poisonings
 A play completely about
death
Now You Try!
IN WHAT WAYS DOES HAMLET
EXPLORE THE THEME OF DEATH?
Hamlet
Renaissance man
Madness?
Tragic flaw
Philosophical
Noble heart
Imagery
Garden Imagery
Disease, contagion,
poison
Death imagery
Now You Try!
WHAT FORMS OF IMAGERY DO WE SEE
IN HAMLET? WHAT THEMES ARE
ENRICHED BY THE IMAGERY UTILIZED BY
SHAKESPEARE?
Hamlet in Popular Media
Not just Lion
King, but also
other
contemporary
stories!

Hamlet truly is
timeless.
Now You Try!
 Turn to a student near you and partner up.
 What other stories are you familiar with that
follow a tragic hero?
 How did that story resonate with you?

You may be called on to share your


partner’s answer!
Now You Try!
 Break out into groups and complete a concept/definition map for
one of the following themes (assigned by the teacher):
 Ambition, Fate, Guilt, Indecisiveness, Mortality, Revenge

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