Hamlet's Diary

To facilitate our discussion of Hamlet and to give your a head start on your formal response writing (#3 is due next Monday), I've started a new forum at the AP Underground called, for no clear reason, "Hamlet's Diary."

On any given day that we look at Hamlet in class, I will be asking four students to post two discussion prompts each to that sub-forum.  These prompts should simply take the form of questions related to the portion of the play we observed in class that day and should be posted by the next day before school begins. Begin each prompt with a tag that tells us, at a minimum, what act and scene your prompt relates to.  If your prompt relates to style or language, you might provide line numbers, too.

When devising your prompts, recall the four doorways that give us access to the process of making observations: how is setting (physical, social, political) playing a role?  What characterization is taking place?  What actions seem significant?  What style/language close readings seem appropriate?