This week we continued hamlet. We do Advice from Polonious which told us the advice polonious gave to his son then he was sent off to college. This helps us understand that people back then had the same values that we have today. We finished out Act 1 of Hamlet. In scene 5 Hamlet actually talks to his fathers ghost. He father ghost tells him that he must kill Claudius with out effecting his mother. Hamlet and his two best friends made an oath that they would take care of Claudius and avenge the former Kings. We started act 2 and this is when Hamlet comes up with a plan to take care of Claudius. Hamlet decides that he is going to put on a play representing the murder of his father.
This week we had ACT and it was actually a lot harder than I thought. The time is what got me on the Reading portion. I only finished 2 of the prompts and was forced to guess on the all the last questions. You must read very fast when taking the ACT. Almost skim it so that you will have enough time. The English portion was fairly easy. It was one of the tests that I did finish along with Math. All you have to do on the English test is find the grammar that is correct and a lot of the problems had answers that were easily eliminated. The ACT is a test of time. It time how well you are under pressure and how fast you can problem solve. I do not feel that it is an accurate way of testing someone intelligence. The Writing portion was timed also but we had an easy prompts about sports. It was quite easy to display my arguments within the time given.
We just started watching a classic by Shakespeare called Hamlet. It is about a prince that lost his father, the king, and now has his uncle in his place. Hamlet knows that his Uncle has killed his father but no one else knows. His mother marries his uncle only months after his fathers death. Hamlet feels betrayed by his mother and everyone around him. Hamlet must find a way to eliminate his Uncle Claudius without getting convicted of treason or harming his mother in the process. This will be a hard task because treason results in death.
This week we had a Hamlet expert come in and tell us all about hamlet. She explained the ending very well and gave an explanation for everything. We saw the ending of hamlet and took in the true meaning of Shakespeare and his writing. He makes everything ironic and connect through out. Shakespeare love tragedy and that is what he is best at. Probably the best of all time. Hamlet fights laureates and then the king poisons the mother trying to poison hamlet. Then laureates scratches hamlet with his sword, then laureates falls off balcony. Hamlet kills the king and hamlet dies from the scratch.
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