Olympics Reading Activities

Hamlet: Act 1 Scene 1 (summary)

Scene 1

The play opens during a bitterly cold night watch outside of the royal Danish palace. There is a changing of the guards: Bernardo replaces Francisco. Soon two more characters arrive, Horatio and Marcellus. We learn that Bernardo and Marcellus, two soldiers, have witnessed an extraordinary sight on both of the previous nights’ watches: the ghost of the former King of Denmark,Old Hamlet, has appeared before them in full armor. On this third night, they’ve welcomed Horatio, a scholar and a skeptic who has just arrived in Denmark, to verify their ghost sighting. Horatio initially expresses doubt that the ghost will appear. Suddenly, it does. The two soldiers charge Horatio to speak to the ghost but he does not. The ghost disappears just as suddenly as it arrived.

Soon after the ghost’s disappearance, Marcellus asks the other two why there has been such a massive mobilization of Danish war forces recently. Horatio answers, saying that the Danish army is preparing for a possible invasion by Fortinbras, Prince of Norway. We learn that Fortinbras’ father (also named Fortinbras), was killed many years before in single combat with Old Hamlet, the now-deceased king whose ghost we have just seen. Now that Old Hamlet has died, presumably weakening the Danes, there is a rumor that Fortinbras plans to invade Denmark and claim that lands that were forfeit after his father’s death.

After Horatio has finished explaining this political backstory, the ghost of Old Hamlet appears once more. This time Horatio does try to speak to the ghost. When the ghost remains silent, Horatio tells Marcellus and Bernardo to try to detain it; they strike at the ghost with their spears but jab only air. A rooster crows just as the ghost appears ready to reply to Horatio at last. This sound startles the ghost away. Horatio decides to tell Prince Hamlet, Old Hamlet’s son, about the apparition, and the others agree.

Received from: http://www.gradesaver.com/hamlet/study-guide/summary-act-1

Reading groups (updated)

Dahl	Rowling	Lewis	Tolkein	Shakespare
Ryan	Fiona	Kyle	Tyler	Holly
Kaelim	Annabelle	Aysha	Emelia	Jason
Amy	Kayla	Jack D	Alycia	Juliet
Waimere	Darbie	Giorgia	Dylan	Lucy
	Damian	Jake	Molly	Sami
	Morgan	Ting-wei	Tiana
	Christian	Jack M
	Libby

Reading Activities Term 2 Week 5 (due Friday)

Tolkien (8) + Lewis (9):
Famous Explorers: Marco Polo
The Outsiders Chapt 5

Rowling (9):
Effective Questioning 
Non-Fiction: Not Just Kicking and Punching by Adele Broadbent 
(School Journal Part 2 Number 2 2006)

Dahl (4):
Activating Prior Knowledge
Non-Fiction: Dusty by Rosie Boom 
(School Journal Part 2 Number 4 2006)

Blogs: Wed 6th April

• Update the homework checklist with hyperlinks
• Camp pre: On the Trail

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Read through it and answer the following questions underneath it:

1. What do you notice about the layout of this?
2. Why would it be set out this way rather than just have text?
3. So what?: How is this relevant to camp?
4. So what?: How is this relevant to our current transdisciplinary theme? (Sharing the Planet)

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• Update what you have done for "Take up the Challenge"
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Reading Activities: T1W7

Tolkien and Lewis:
Outsiders: Finish Chapter 1 + Activites. Begin and finish Chapter 2 + Activities

and/or


Part 4 Number 3 2005 activities
High Flyers, Last Summer, Let's Hear It for Waiata Reka, Reaching Ray's Rock, To Spray or Not To Spray?

Rowling and Dahl:
Part 3 Number 3 2005 activities
Friday Night Out, Giving it a shot, Memories, The Tail of the Gecko?, What's for Pudding?

Reading rotation

Tolkien
Finish your "Yellow Brick Road" booklet
School Journal 2010 Part 4 Number 1 activities

Dahl
School Journal 2010 Part 2 Number 1 activities

Lewis
Finish your "Yellow Brick Road" booklet
School Journal 2010 Part 4 Number 1 activities

Rowling
School Journal 2010 Part 3 Number 1 activities

Reading Groups