Hamlet Lesson Plan | Unit Objectives
1. Through reading Shakespeare's Hamlet students will see how one man's greed results in at least nine deaths in the tragedy.
2. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the text on four levels: factual, interpretive, critical and personal.
3. Students will see the conflicts of man vs. himself and man vs. man resolved in the tragedy.
4. Students will learn that political struggles for power within a government are a part of any historical era, not just modern times.
5. Students will study the theme of revenge.
6. Students will be exposed to background information about Shakespeare, Elizabethan drama, and Hamlet.
7. Students will examine Shakespeare's use of language.
8. Students will be given the opportunity to practice reading aloud and silently to improve their skills in each area.
9. Students will answer questions to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the main events and characters in Hamlet as they relate to the author's theme development.
10. Students will enrich their vocabularies and improve their understanding of the play through the vocabulary lessons prepared for use in conjunction with the play.
11. The writing assignments in this unit are geared to several purposes:
a. To have students demonstrate their abilities to inform, to persuade, or
to express their own personal ideas
Note: Students will demonstrate ability to write effectively to inform by developing and organizing facts to convey information. Students will demonstrate the ability to write effectively to persuade by selecting and organizing relevant information, establishing an argumentative purpose, and by designing an appropriate strategy for an identified audience. Students will demonstrate the ability to write effectively to express personal ideas by selecting a form and its appropriate elements.
b. To check the students' reading comprehension
c. To make students think about the ideas presented by the play
d. To encourage logical thinking
