Thinking+Tasks

|| Student Login details for all Thinking Activities: (ie. Your allocated character name will be your username and password) Practice Team 1 **ID**:  Claudius  Practice Team 2 **ID:**Hamlet ||  **Password:** Claudius **Password:** Hamlet || Visit the following link and add in the above details to log in to the tool http://educate.intel.com/en/ThinkingTools/VisualRanking/
 * =** Activity One - What sort of character are you? **=
 * **Visual Ranking Tool** ||
 * Hamlet has fascinated audiences and readers for centuries, and the first thing to point about him is that he is enigmatic. There is always more to him than the other characters in the play can figure out; even the most careful and clever readers come away with the sense that they don't know everything there is to know about this character. What are the main character traits we see in the players?  ||
 * Pretend you are your nominated character from Hamlet. You need to consider the following personality traits and drag them into order that most reflects your character to those that least reflect your character. Work in pairs and don't forget to click on the box to enter typed reasons for your ranking. You can then peek and compare each others’ responses. ||
 * Pretend you are your nominated character from Hamlet. You need to consider the following personality traits and drag them into order that most reflects your character to those that least reflect your character. Work in pairs and don't forget to click on the box to enter typed reasons for your ranking. You can then peek and compare each others’ responses. ||
 * **Teacher ID**: joannetate

=** ACTIVITY TWO - Hamlet who is repsponsible? **=

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 * **Visual Ranking Project Name Hamlet – Who is responsible?** ||
 * ON A DARK WINTER NIGHT, a ghost walks the ramparts of Elsinore Castle in Denmark. What is rotten in the state of Denmark? Ophelia and Hamlet and their families could not forsee the grave future ahead of them. By the end of the play a number of them are dead. Is it fate, simply unlucky circumstances, or something else that causes these deaths? Use the visual ranking tool to help clarify who are most to blame for Hamlet’s death. From these ideas you will write an essay that discusses who and what contributed to the deaths of Hamlet and Ophelia. ||
 * Rank the characters in order of their influence upon and responsibility for the ultimate death of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. ||
 * Rank the characters in order of their influence upon and responsibility for the ultimate death of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Rank the characters in order of their influence upon and responsibility for the ultimate death of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. ||

=**  ACTIVITY THREE - WHAT MAKES A TRAGEDY? **= || || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Use the seeing reason tool to help you determine the elements resulting in the tragedy of Hamlet. We will revisit the tool so you can review and revise your entries during the course of our study. You will use your information to represent your ideas on the class blog discussion. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> || || ||
 * **Seeing Reason Tool** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">**What makes a tragedy?**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Project Description
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">“On the one hand (whatever may be true of tragedies elsewhere), no play that ends with the hero alive is, in the full Shakespearean sense, a tragedy. On the other hand, the story also depicts the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death.” //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Research Question You will Address
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What elements are essential to the Hamlet being regarded as a tragedy? <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">

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= TASK FOUR - 'TO BE OR NOT TO BE' SHOWING EVIDENCE TOOL =

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Do you agree that a small amount of evil is enough to corrupt something good? || Open this link and use the some username and password as above. https://ssl.intel.com/EducationUser/student/login.aspx?LID=en**
 * **<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Showing Evidence Tool - To be or not to be…? <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> ** ||
 * <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">If you take a glass of water and using an eye dropper drip in three drops of red ink what happens? Would you drink it? '//Hamlet//' creates images of the nature of corruption. Something is rotten in the State of Denmark but does one rotten apple tarnish the whole bowl? You need to think carefully about what the evidence in the play suggests in this regard using well reasoned and supported arguments.
 * <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">If you take a glass of water and using an eye dropper drip in three drops of red ink what happens? Would you drink it? '//Hamlet//' creates images of the nature of corruption. Something is rotten in the State of Denmark but does one rotten apple tarnish the whole bowl? You need to think carefully about what the evidence in the play suggests in this regard using well reasoned and supported arguments.