1. Polonius’ Top 10 Ways to Behave While Away at College Act 1, Scene 3 could be seen as an advice column. Polonius and Laertes both give advice/rules to Ophelia; however, the scene is most famous for Polonius’ conversation with his son about how to act/behave when he returns to France. You have been given a one of Polonius’ rules. Decide what you feel the “rule” means. Raise your hand to see if you figured it out. Turn the rule into a funny sentence that makes it like a line from a David Letterman Top Ten.

2. Number 1 This above all: to thine ownself be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

3. Number 2 Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

4. Number 3 Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that.

5. Number 4 Take each man's censure*, but reserve thy judgment. * Please look this word up in a dictionary!!

6. Number 5 Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;

7. Number 6 Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.

8. Number 7 Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade.

9. Number 8 Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;

10. Number 9 Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.

11. Number 10 See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act.

12. Why? It seems as if Polonius is extremely worried about the way his children act; however, the question we should consider is: –Is it for THEIR best interest or his best interest that he is giving out these ‘rules?” –What information from the text supports your answer to this question?