ENG4U Unit 2: Hamlet

A ghost tribunal, three stagings of the nunnery scene, a soliloquy remix, the Mousetrap from three viewpoints, Ophelia's missing scenes, a graveyard memento mori and a “who is to blame?” inquiry. Students then read Hamlet's critics from Goethe and Coleridge to Bradley and Eliot and compare film interpretations. Grief, suicide and madness are handled with care routines and support resources in the teacher notes.

Assessment of learning: a soliloquy performance with director's commentary and a literary essay that responds to a critic, with rubrics.

Lessons

1. Something Is Rotten
2. Too, Too Solid Flesh
3. Advice and Warnings
4. The Ghost's Command
5. Is Hamlet Mad?
6. The Play's the Thing
7. To Be or Not to Be
8. Get Thee to a Nunnery
9. The Mousetrap
10. Now Might I Do It
11. How All Occasions
12. Ophelia's Madness
13. Alas, Poor Yorick
14. The Readiness Is All
15. Hamlet and the Critics
16. Soliloquy Showcase

What you get

• A teacher lesson plan for every lesson: curriculum expectations, learning goals and success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation, look-fors and answer guides
• Detailed slideshows (15 to 18 slides per lesson) with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend, plus worked examples, model answers and answer-key slides
• Student handouts, organizers and exit tickets
• The complete play (106-page Reading Edition) and a Hamlet Companion with scene summaries, critics and film guide
• Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs
• A unit overview and the summative tasks and rubrics