Question

English IV – Unit 7: Elizabethan Literature
Project: Writing the Critical Essay

Once your teacher has approved and graded your topic, thesis statement and outline, you may begin writing your first draft, following the outline that you wrote earlier. Please follow the requirements given below.
Instructions:

Length: at least 1300 words
Format: 1" margins, 12 pt. font—no unusual or italic fonts
Sources: Do not use outside sources for this assignment, but use direct evidence from Hamlet itself.

You will be graded on how well you defend your thesis through logical argumentation as well as effective use of the play as textual evidence in your defense. Organization, grammar, mechanics, and length will also be graded.

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@highschoolmom2010

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@thomaster

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@e.cociuba

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@e.mccormick

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need help with starting then i try continue

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So did you get your "...topic, thesis statement and outline..." graded and done?

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you mean assignments i did?

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they all 70% C's im bad on hamlet

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some of them are even 65%

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@love_jessika15

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Well, this is a progressive assignment. You start with some topic, get it approved, make a thesis statement related to that, have that graded, and then do an outline of the paper and have that graded. Well,they may have all been graded as one thing, but all three of those need to have been done before this.

At this point, it should be following that outline to make the paper.

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one sec

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English IV – Unit 7: Elizabethan Literature
Project: Preparing to Write the Critical Essay

In preparing to write a critical essay on Hamlet, you will need to follow the same series of steps that you would follow in writing any other exposition. These include the following:

selecting a topic
limiting the topic
developing a thesis statement
outlining
writing the first draft
revising
writing the final draft

Instructions:

You will complete the task of writing a critical essay in two parts. In the current project, you will complete the following:

Name the character and related, limited aspect you wish to write about in your critical essay (i.e., choose and limit a topic).
Formulate the statement you wish to make about the topic you stated. (i.e., draft a thesis statement).
Write a tentative outline for your critical essay.

For this essay, do not use outside sources, but use direct evidence from Hamlet itself.

Careful, thoughtful completion of the three steps above is essential to the success of your critical essay. Your teacher will analyze your work and may request revisions before you can move on to the writing stage in the next assignment.

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i forgot show preparing essay

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So did you pick a topic yet? What have you done so far?

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i haven't start writing anything yet

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Did your teacher go over anything on what type of critical essay this will be?

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i need topic something simple not hard cause it need to be at least 1.3k words

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the unit was about play Hamlet

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1. Elizabethan Poetry: Part I; Songs
Lesson Aug 05, 2013 11:02 AM Graded 56.9

2. Elizabethan Poetry: Part II; Sonnets
Lesson Aug 05, 2013 2:20 PM Graded 82.8

3. Elizabethan Poetry: Part III; Sonnets
Lesson Aug 05, 2013 4:23 PM Graded 60.8

5. Quiz 1: Elizabethan Poetry
Quiz Aug 05, 2013 4:56 PM Graded 51.8

6. Elizabethan Drama
Lesson Aug 05, 2013 5:17 PM Graded 81.5

7. William Shakespeare
Lesson Aug 05, 2013 5:25 PM Graded 63.5

8. Quiz 2: Elizabethan Drama
Quiz Aug 06, 2013 4:08 PM Graded 73.8

9. Hamlet: Act I, I-II
Lesson Aug 06, 2013 4:34 PM Graded 68.3

10. Hamlet: Act I, III-V
Lesson Aug 06, 2013 4:55 PM Graded 63.9

11. Hamlet: Act II
Lesson Aug 06, 2013 5:23 PM Graded 73.3

12. Hamlet: Act III
Lesson Aug 07, 2013 9:32 AM Graded 50.8

13. Hamlet: Act IV
Lesson Aug 07, 2013 10:17 AM Graded 62.4

14. Hamlet: Act V
Lesson Aug 07, 2013 10:53 AM Graded 55.2

15. Quiz 3: Hamlet
Quiz Aug 07, 2013 11:21 AM Graded 45.8

16. The Critical Essay
Lesson Aug 07, 2013 11:38 AM Completed 13.3

17. Project: Preparing to Write the Critical Essay
Project Aug 07, 2013 12:56 PM Assigned --

18. Project: Writing the Critical Essay
Project Aug 06, 2013 11:01 AM Assigned --

20. Test
Test Aug 07, 2013 1:01 PM Graded 70.6

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this all lesson i've done and they all bad :(

Answer 22

OK, so you need to start with, "Name the character and related, limited aspect you wish to write about in your critical essay (i.e., choose and limit a topic)."

What part of the play do you remember the best? What part did you find most interesting? If you are going to look at something critically it is best to look at one character through the entire play or one scene and what it means to the story. So you need to pick one that is most interesting or memorable to you.

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when king was killd by posion (did you ever done hamlet before?)

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The ghost telling how he was killed by poison in his ear or the end of the fight where the king is forced to drink the poisoned goblet (and stabbed and so on)?

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Cladue had dip edge his sword and stab him

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Or the play within the play where they reenact it? Almost forgot that...

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with posion

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OK, so the fight at the end and how, if I recall, Hamlet stabs the king with Cladue's sword.

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that's all and how i write 1300 word essay?

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Or king Claudius with the poisoned sword... been a long time since I looked at Hamlet.

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you did that before?

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Well, you need to take a postition in a critical paper and say something about it.

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max thing i can do is 200 words

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hate this unit :(

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All you need to do at this point is find something to look at critcally. Do you know what that means?

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i told you claduie killd king with posion diped edge with posion or he died while drinking posion wine

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Yes, that is the event. What do you want to talk critically about it?

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can you help start i feel like it won't even go to 50 words :/

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@Hero

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@hero you think thats easy to write 1300 word essay hamlet critical essay how he was killd

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have you done Hamlet before?

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Like I said, you need to take a point of view. I don't know what about the killing of the king in the final act that you find memorable, important, etc. If that is the scene you know the most about, great, use it. But you need to take a position on it. Was it justified? Was it the expected result? Was it surprising? Was it an evil deed no mater what? So on and so forth.. You need to take a position, then defend it, using Hamlet as the single source.

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It's no different from any other literature essay. There are plenty resources you can use to help. I'll post a few...

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Yah, like this:
http://grammar.about.com/od/c/g/criticalessayterm.htm

Has nice overview of the general topic of what a critical essay is and links to examples.

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i need starting i don't care witch topic

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First off, here's a translation of the book into modern English style. You'll find it very useful
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/hamlet/page_2.html

Secondly, here's a video that gives a great overview of Hamlet:
http://www.sparknotes.com/sparknotes/video/hamlet

Last but not least, a section that discusses the summary, themes, characters, and plot:
http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/hamlet/


These are all essential resources one should have in their possession when writing Shakespearian essays. Good luck

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i rember play

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See, if I come up with the topic, that is my point of view, and you might find it confusing or focusing on some part you do not agree with. You need to come up with it and at least a couple line of why you think this event, the killing of the king, is important, controversial, etc. You need to have an opinion on it based on what you read in Hamlet. Then other people can help you work that into the outline you need.

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i might ask teacher to do something else if he say thats req then bummer -_-

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i won't close this question if something comes up please do (all i need is turn it by agust 15th)