Hamlet Bellringer # 24-8-14 Directions: Use your character map to help you with these questions. 1.What happens to Hamlet’s father before the play starts?

Hamlet Bellringer # 2 4-8-14Directions: Use your character map to help you with

these questions.1. What happens to Hamlet’s father before the play

starts?2. What did Hamlet’s mother do, shortly after this?3. What is suspicious about this action? List all you

can think of.4. Who is Polonius?5. Why does Hamlet and Ophelia’s relationship seem

odd? (Why could it not work?)Today’s Target: I can read drama and analyze the author’s use of conventions.

Hamlet Bellringer # 2 4-8-14Directions: Use your character map to help you with

these questions.1. What happens to Hamlet’s father before the play

starts?2. What did Hamlet’s mother do, shortly after this?3. What is suspicious about this action? List all you

can think of.4. Who is Polonius?5. Why does Hamlet and Ophelia’s relationship seem

odd? (Why could it not work?)Today’s Target: I can read drama and analyze the author’s use of conventions.

Hamlet Bellringer # 3 4-9-14All questions are from Act I, scenes i and ii. Use your book to

help you. 1. At the beginning of Act 1, scene I, why are the guards

“on edge”? (Give two reasons).2. Why do the characters in Act 1 decide the ghost will not

speak to them?3. Why is Claudius sending ambassadors to Norway?4. What is the basic reasoning of Claudius and Gertrude’s

argument to Hamlet about his melancholy?

Today’s Target: I can read drama and analyze the author’s use of conventions.

Hamlet Bellringer # 4 4-10-14All questions are from Act I, scenes ii and iii. Use

your book to help you. Parenthetical Citation = (Act.Scene.Lines)

1. “Frailty thy name is woman!” (1.2.146) What does Hamlet mean by this statement? Do you think he is speaking about all women or just his mother? Why?

2. What is Laertes’s advice to Ophelia?3. What does Polonius command of Ophelia?Today’s Target: I understand how the author’s choice of details supports characterization.

Hamlet Bellringer #6 4/14/14

1. How was Old King Hamlet killed?2. How does the ghost feel about the queen’s

involvement in his situation? What does he tell Hamlet to do about it?

3. What does Hamlet resolve to do at the end of Act I? List two items.

Today’s Target: I can summarize information important for analysis.


1. List two instances of spying or investigations we know about thus far in this play.

Today’s Target: I can compare what is directly stated in a text to its inferred meaning.


1. Describe the way Polonius speaks. Why does this frustrate Gertrude in Act 2?

2. What does Hamlet demand to know from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern when they come to visit him?

3. What plan does Polonius come up with to determine if the reason for Hamlet’s madness is his love for Ophelia?



1. List all occurrences of spying and deception so far in the play. I thought of 6. How many can you think of?

Today’s Target: I can identify and interpret characterization and tone in a text.


1. What do you think the “O What a Rogue” speech shows about Hamlet’s character?



1. What are the two possible interpretations of the word “nunnery” from Act 3, scene 1?

2. Which interpretation do you believe Hamlet meant when he continually implored Ophelia to “Get ye to a nunnery”?

3. Think of a time when you’ve felt betrayed by someone you believed you could trust. How did that person’s betrayal influence you? How did it influence your relationship with that person?


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Hamlet Bellringer # 24-8-14 Directions: Use your character map to help you with these questions. 1.What happens to Hamlet’s father before the play starts?