Assignment Two: Read-Summarize-Share
With your assigned group, shrink your section of background information into 20 words or less. Make sure you cover ALL items of importance. Write your summary in your composition book.
With your assigned group, shrink your section of background information into 20 words or less. Make sure you cover ALL items of importance. Write your summary in your composition book.
Assignment Three: The Captain's Speech
Download the speech to the right and turn it into a PDF. We will annotate this speech together in class. |
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Assignment Four: Act I Questions
1. Explain the following paradoxes:
a) "Lesser than Macbeth, and greater."
b) "So foul and fair a day I have not seen."
2. What type of conflict does Macbeth experience in Scene vii?
3. Provide one example of dramatic irony that occurred in Act I.
4. What is the purpose of Lady Macbeth's first soliloquy? (What do we learn about her from this speech?)
5. What is the purpose of all the asides in Act I? (Think about who Macbeth is talking to and what he is talking about!)
1. Explain the following paradoxes:
a) "Lesser than Macbeth, and greater."
b) "So foul and fair a day I have not seen."
2. What type of conflict does Macbeth experience in Scene vii?
3. Provide one example of dramatic irony that occurred in Act I.
4. What is the purpose of Lady Macbeth's first soliloquy? (What do we learn about her from this speech?)
5. What is the purpose of all the asides in Act I? (Think about who Macbeth is talking to and what he is talking about!)
Assignment Five: ACT III Questions
Scene 1
1)What does Banquo suspect?
2)What upsets Macbeth about his position as king? What are the clues to his state of mind?
3)What has Macbeth led the murderers to believe about Banquo? What lines of his echo Lady Macbeth’s comments to him from Act I, scene 7?
Scene 2
4)What lines indicate a shift in Lady Macbeth’s attitude?
5)How do Macbeth’s and Lady Macbeth’s roles seem different in this scene?
Scene 3
6)Who escapes the murders?
Scene 4
7)How does Macbeth react to the news from the murderer?
8)What does Banquo’s ghost and Macbeth’s reaction to it suggest about his state of mind?
9)How does Lady Macbeth try to account for Macbeth’s odd behavior?
10)What do we learn about Macduff?
11)What does Macbeth’s final speech suggest about his state of mind?
Scene 5
12)Why is Hecate upset? What does she plan to do?
Scene 6
13)What do Lennox and the lord imply about the current state of Scotland (and Macbeth)? What doe we learn about Macduff?
Scene 1
1)What does Banquo suspect?
2)What upsets Macbeth about his position as king? What are the clues to his state of mind?
3)What has Macbeth led the murderers to believe about Banquo? What lines of his echo Lady Macbeth’s comments to him from Act I, scene 7?
Scene 2
4)What lines indicate a shift in Lady Macbeth’s attitude?
5)How do Macbeth’s and Lady Macbeth’s roles seem different in this scene?
Scene 3
6)Who escapes the murders?
Scene 4
7)How does Macbeth react to the news from the murderer?
8)What does Banquo’s ghost and Macbeth’s reaction to it suggest about his state of mind?
9)How does Lady Macbeth try to account for Macbeth’s odd behavior?
10)What do we learn about Macduff?
11)What does Macbeth’s final speech suggest about his state of mind?
Scene 5
12)Why is Hecate upset? What does she plan to do?
Scene 6
13)What do Lennox and the lord imply about the current state of Scotland (and Macbeth)? What doe we learn about Macduff?
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Assignment Six: Revealing a Character
There are five ways for an author to reveal a character to the reader.
There are five ways for an author to reveal a character to the reader.
- 1. What the character says
- 2. What the character thinks/feels
- 3. What the character looks like
- 4. How other characters react to that character
- 5. How the character acts
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Assignment Seven: Annotate the Apparitions. Download the PDF to the left and annotate the text. What doe the apparitions prognosticate for Macbeth?
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Assignment Nine:
A) With the groups of your choice, answer the questions linked to the right. Only one group member needs to record your answers. B) INDIVIDUALLY, open the document to the right of Malcolm's final speech. Export as a PDF and annotate it. Follow your own annotation guidelines but make sure you follow the outline provided by me. Do a thorough job. |
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What to Study:
Characters- you should be able to match main characters with their actions and/or descriptions Terms- you should be able to define the nine terms that correspond to the drawing in your daybook as well as the four advanced literary terms. Major Quotes- you will be given important quotes and be asked to explain them and/or name the speaker. Plot- you should be able to put major events in order (for example, the order in which people died), describe the cycle of tragedy, and explain how the play fits the 14 elements of Tragedy as well as the Cycle of Tragedy Theme- you should be able to write a theme and defend your answer with textual evidence. |