Monday, September 28, 2009

Macbeth-Essay

Students will be given an essay topic dealing with Lady Macbeth on Wednesday of this week. Today I covered the structure of the essay and how to incorporate textual support.

We then began reading Act III of Macbeth and working on the following assignment:

Macbeth
Act III
Scenes 1-3

Use the book and respond to each of the following in complete sentences.

Scene 1
Pg 81
Provide a line that shows Banquo’s suspicion of Macbeth.

Pg 91
Provide a line that explains that Macbeth wants Fleance dead.

Scene 2
Pg 95
Explain the line “Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, till thou applauded the deed”

Scene 3
Pg 97
Explain the line “we have lost best half of our affair