Monday, April 1, 2013

Hamlet Essay Due Tomorrow


Final Draft of Hamlet Essay
1. Print out the final draft; be sure to include a Works Cited.  See instructions below.
2.  Submit the complete final draft to www.turnitin.com; the folder is already set up.  The deadline is tomorrow night (11:59 p.m.) but there is no reason to wait.
3.  You will turn in three things on Tuesday:
a) the final draft; stapled these pages
b) the first draft from Friday, March 28
c) the peer response from Friday, March 28

If you haven't done/received a peer response, TELL ME at the start of class on Tuesday.  Parents, older siblings, college friends, etc., are not candidates for the "peer" response process. You must receive feed back from and give feedback to someone in one of my three classes (ideally  your own section, but at this point we sometimes have to compromise on that).

The Works Cited page
1st and 3rd--You must cite the Folger edition.  Follow the format given on the Purdue OWL.  Start here
Works Cited--Books .
Study the"Basic Format" for books--every single part--and then scroll down to "An Edition of a Book" and look at "A book prepared by an editor."  In your case, there are TWO editors, so you will use Eds

5th period--Your book is actually a "collection" with several works in it. But because we are only interested in one of them, you'll use the link above and then scroll down to "A work in an anthology, reference, or collection.  Use the FIRST example.  Then, instead of author and "essay," you will plug in the author and full title of the first work in the collection.  Look on page 1 (unnumbered, but two pages before 3!) for the correct complete title.
Shakespeare, William.  The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.

Now, I'm not giving you the rest in order, but note the following:
The title of the book is Hamlet and Related Readings.  
The publisher is McDougal Littell.  Go with Evanston, IL as the place of publication(it is listed first, and it's a tad bit closer).
There is no editor listed.
You DO need the page range for the entire play:  1-291.  (You WON'T use page numbers in your citations though--just the act, scene, line number as you've been told.  This page range is ONLY for the Works Cited)
You should be able to dig out the date and anything esle you might need.

The Shakespearean Memory Work
You can choose 12-16 consecutive lines by the same speaker in Hamlet--and you must start at the beginning of a sentence and stop at the end of a clause (preferably at the end of a sentence).
OR you can choose one of the following sonnet:
Sonnets 12, 18, 29, 30, 116, or 130.

Four of these (18, 29, 116, 130) are in your textbook online, but you can access all of them by number on the following site:
http://poetry.eserver.org/sonnets/

Whichever choice you make (lines from Hamlet or one of these sonnets), you must have a clean-copy print-out for me on the day that you recite: Tuesday if you wish, and tomorrow you'll know whether Wednesday or Thursday is your DAY.

Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant," starts on p. 1250 of the book
1st and 3rd got going on this today; a couple of people finished the questions. More time tomorrow if needed--NOT homework since the essay is due!

5th was behind because of the fire drill and different pacing . . . so don't worry about this at all tonight.  You'll get the assignment and the questions in class tomorrow.



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