Hamlet Act I Discussion Questions
Reading and Annotation
Encourage the students to use the annotation symbols and approaches below:
Encourage the students to use the annotation symbols and approaches below:
- (Q) Question - Ask about something in the passage that is unclear -- usually begin with "Why?"
- (SR) Strong Reaction - Mark down ideas or scenes or moments which evoke a strong reaction in you.
- (IT) Important Things - Keep track of important moments in the plot.
- (C) Connect - Make a connection to your life, the world, or another text
- (P) Predict - Anticipate what will occur based on what’s in the passage
- (CL) Clarify - Answer earlier questions or confirm/disaffirm a prediction
- (J) Judge - Make a judgment about what the author is trying to say, or about the characters' decisions or actions or words.
Hamlet Act I Discussion Questions*
Note: Some questions taken or adapted from the Great Books Shared Inquiry program.
Note #2: Some of these questions should be revisited later in the play, as later opinions may change our initial responses.
Note: Some questions taken or adapted from the Great Books Shared Inquiry program.
Note #2: Some of these questions should be revisited later in the play, as later opinions may change our initial responses.
The Ghost
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The appearance of the ghost is the event that catalyzes all of the other subsequent reactions of this play, inciting Hamlet to his (slow-moving) revenge plot that ends up in his own death.
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Fathers and Sons
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Leadership and Rule
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Dearly Beloved
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Crazy Love
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