Snow day...now a change in plans!

I hope you enjoyed your snow day!

Now it's a short week - and before you know it, you will be on break for the holidays.

HOWEVER, we all need to buckle up and focus these remaining days.


Due to the snow day, I propose the following:

Tomorrow/Thursday, instead of the scheduled test, we will have an IN-CLASS write.
In essence, this is will be PART III the 3 Word Essay. (See previous posts for more links.)

Part III. "Words, Words, Words" Essay: Select 3 significant words from Hamlet  - explain their connection (and their significance).

Here's a sampling of words that Shakespeare invented.

What will your three words be? How are they connected or related? 
Have any of the words changed in meaning from Shakespeare's time to today?

Is it used in interesting ways in the play?

Is it used in different ways in the play

Make connections as to how your three words

Search MIT online text:

           Edit - Find (Command F)

Search words by Character:

BE SURE YOU USE the OED - Print out definitions of your THREE words.

Bring an outline with quotes.

Word	Number of times used	Comments
Noble	19
Kind	13
Distemper	4
True	25
Truth	6
Good	More than a 100 times
Kind	13
Revenge	16
Ear	53
Voice	12
Silence	4
Mad	85
Bad	7

Your abridged Shakespeare skits/movies will still be due Tuesday.


We will have the Hamlet Test (PART I & II) on Wednesday. (See previous post).

Unfold:

 2. To disclose or reveal by statement or exposition; to explain or make clear.

a1050   Liber Scintill. xxxviii. (1889) 140   Geþancu unrihtwisnysse [hi] unfealdað.

?c1225  (▸?a1200)    Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 80   Þis is anbichede word... hit is bi lepped & bihud. ach ich wule unfalden.

a1250   Prov. Ælfred 659   Al he bi-fulit his frend, Þen he him vnfoldit.

c1400  (1380)    Cleanness l. 1563   Calle hem alle to my cort.., Vnfolde hem alle þis ferly þat is bifallen here.

1426   Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 10962   At the grete Iugement Wher tassyses shal be holde, Al couert falsenesse to vnfolde.

c1475   Partenay 5124   The holy fader wondred on that he told, Off tho merueles that ther [he] gan vnfold.

1595   Lamentable Trag. Locrine i. i. 83,   I will vnto you all vnfold Our royall mind and resolute intent.

1658   R. Flecknoe Enigmaticall Characters 1   Clearly unfolding and explicating the notions of her minde.

1693   Humours & Conversat. Town 38,   I will only unfold it to you as the nature of the thing is.

1782   J. Priestley Disquis. Matter & Spirit (ed. 2) I. p. xxxii,   His system is..perhaps the same..if he would distinctly unfold it.

1817   J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. ix. 689   In a speech..[he] unfolded the causes and extent of the national calamities.

1875   B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 239   The brethren whose mysteries I am about to unfold to you are far more ingenious.

refl.

1604   Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 2   Nay answere me. Stand and vnfolde your selfe.

a1637   B. Jonson Sad Shepherd ii. v. 9 in Wks. (1640) III,   What riddle is this! unfold your selfe, deare Robin.

1834   T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. v. 51/2   The self-secluded unfolds himself in..free, glowing words.