Macbeth

Today we finished reading Act I, scene 5 and completed the handout the students received yesterday. We also looked at the graphic novel adaptation.

Macbeth Act I, scenes 4-5

Today we read through scene 4 and began working on the following assignment while reading scene 5:

Macbeth
Act I, scene 5
20pts

This is the first scene in which Lady Macbeth appears. In your notes it says that she is overly ambitious. For each of the items below you must find a line that represents it.


Lines 15-31
Lady Macbeth is worried that Macbeth lacks the ruthlessness to kill Duncan.


Lines 45-54
Lady Macbeth talks herself into being as cold and cruel as possible.


Lines 70-82
Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to put on a friendly exterior concealing his evil intentions.

Macbeth Open-ended question

Today we finished reading act 1, scene 3 and completed the following assignment in class:

Macbeth thinks about what the witches have told him.

• How is he responding emotionally to what he has learned?
• Do you think he will leave it to “chance”?

Use the passage to provide support for your responses



This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill,
Why hath it given me earnest of success,
Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor:
If good, why do I yield to that suggestion
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
Against the use of nature? Present fears
Are less than horrible imaginings:
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man that function
Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is
But what is not.

If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me,
Without my stir.


Students who did not finish in class are to hand it in at the beginning of class on Thursday.

Macbeth Audacity Project

Students are currently working on recreating the first scene of Macbeth using the audio remixing software, Audacity. Each class is responsible, as a group, for all creative decisions. The projects will be posted here. Visitors to this blog will be able to vote for their favorite project.

Welcome

I hope everyone had an enjoyable summer. We will begin the year with Shakespeare's Macbeth. All HW and projects will be posted here.

Have a great summer!

Enjoy your time off this summer and be safe. I hope to see all of you next year when you are seniors.

Have a great summer!