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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark This activity is to help you become involved actively with reading the play by helping you to determine a definite purpose for reading. Before you read these scenes in Act I, take a few minutes to respond in writing to the questions below. Dont worry about correct answers here. Use your own experience, what you know, or what you may have heard about the play to speculate about what you think might happen. Sometimes, as for scenes i, ii, and iii below, you may be asked to speculate about issues that parallel the action of the play. After reading a scene, you may find that the characters reacted differently than you thought. Dont worry about these differences; just make note of them because you will have opportunities to share these differences in other activities. Journal-Act I Based upon what you have seen or heard, what do you expect Hamlet to be about? What do you think of a person who would assassinate his brother, seize the throne, and then marry his widowed former sister-in-law? As heir to the throne, how do you think this series of events would affect your relationships with both your mother and uncle? What advice would you expect an older brother to give his teenage sister about boys and dating before the brother went off to college? What advice would you expect a father to give his son before sending him off to college? If the ghost is indeed the spirit of Hamlets father, what do you think it will tell Hamlet? After Reading Act I: Now that you have finished reading Act I, which of your speculations were most accurate? How do you account for them? Which ones were least like the action of the play? Why do you think you speculated as you did? Journal-Act II(bless you!) Now that Hamlet has decided to pretend to be mad, so he can develop a plan to avenge his fathers murder, what do you think he might do to convince Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, and Polonius that hes mad? Based upon what you know about Claudius, what do you