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    Anxiety and Uncertainty

    Use this Real-Life Lens Lesson to help students dive deep into Shakespeare’s Hamlet and examine and engage with the play through the lens of anxiety and uncertainty.

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    An Analytical Summary

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    Students will use this worksheet to learn how to write an analytical summary of a scene from Hamlet by using analytical verbs, precise nouns, and descriptive adverbs and adjectives.

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    Visual Map: Certainty and Doubt

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    Students will work in a group using this worksheet to create a visual literary map that explores how certainty and doubt affect a character’s choices, ideas, and actions

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    Analyzing Hamlet’s “To Be, or Not to Be” Soliloquy

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    Students will use this worksheet to first identify the poetic and literary elements in the speech and then connect those elements to the thematic expressions revealed about Hamlet’s anxieties and inner conflict.

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    Fortinbras: A Story of Revenge

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    Students will use this worksheet to trace the instances Fortinbras appears in the text and compare Fortinbras’s and Hamlet’s motivations.

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    Death and Grieving

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    Students will use this worksheet to explore the themes of uncertainty about death, the impermanence of life, and the process of grief by closely examining several quotes from the play.

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    The Language of Revenge and Guilt

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    Students will use this worksheet to better understand the meanings of words commonly used in Shakespeare’s time that are related to the themes of revenge and guilt.

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    Mental Illness in the Renaissance

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    This handout gives students important background information about the treatment of mental illness in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

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    Death and Grieving

    • CCSS RL.11-12.1, RL.11-12.2, RL.11-12.3, W.11-12.10

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