Macbeth

Pd 2-Today we read finished Act II and completed the following worksheet:

Macbeth
Act II
Scenes 3 & 4

Use the book to answer the following questions:

Pg 65
Lines 61-69
Explain what Lennox is telling Macbeth. What is the significance?

pg 67
Provide an example of irony.

Pgs 69-71
Lines 127-137
What is Macbeth’s excuse for killing the servants? What is his real reason?

Pg 75
Provide a line explaining why Malcolm and Donalbain are suspects in their father’s murder.

Pd 8-We read Act II scenes 1-2 from the graphic novel. Students were given the following worksheet for HW:

Macbeth hallucinates and sees a gory dagger leading him to Duncan’s bedchamber.
• Why does Macbeth believe he is seeing the dagger?
• Will this be Macbeth’s final hallucination? Why or why not?
Use the text to provide support.

Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.
Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going;
And such an instrument I was to use.
Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses,
Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still,
And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Which was not so before. There's no such thing:
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder,
Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.
With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design
Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,
And take the present horror from the time,
Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives:
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.
[A bell rings]
I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.

Pd 9-Did not meet due to the pep rally.

Macbeth

Today we read Act II, scenes 1-2 and completed the handout from yesterday. Also, students are receiving their open-ended responses and are being given an opportunity to revise for full credit. A second open-ended task will follow.

Macbeth

Students received the following handout which will be completed in class tomorrow:

Macbeth
Act II
scenes 1-2
20pts

Use the book to answer the following questions in complete sentences.

Pgs 51-53
Why does Macbeth have the vision of the dagger? What does it represent? Provide a line supporting your response.



Pg 59
Compare Macbeth’s response to the murder to Lady Macbeth’s. Do they react differently? Explain.

What does Macbeth mean when he says “Will all great Neptune’s oceans wash this blood clean from my hand…”?

What does Lady Macbeth mean when she says “a little water clears us of this deed”?

Macbeth

Today we began viewing the film version of Macbeth. We will begin reading act II tomorrow.

Macbeth Act I, scenes 6 & 7

Today we read scene 6 and most of scene 7 while completing the following assignment:

Macbeth
Act I, scene 7
20pts


This is another scene featuring interaction between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. For each of the items below you must find a line that represents it.

Lines 1-28
Macbeth contemplates the reasons why it is a terrible thing to kill Duncan.


Lines 39-49
Lady Macbeth mocks Macbeth for being afraid and weak.


Lines 53-67
-Lady Macbeth mocks her husband again.
-She explains how determined she is. (what is her example?)

Lines 69-82
Lady Macbeth reassures him that everything will go smoothly as long as he is dedicated to it.


We will finish this worksheet tomorrow.

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.