Macbeth Act III. 1-3

Today we read through act III, scene 1 of Macbeth. Students began working on the following worksheet: 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 applaud the deed” Scene 3 Pg 97 Explain the line “we have lost best half of our affair”

Macbeth Act II

Today we viewed and discussed Act II of the film version of Macbeth. We will begin Act III tomorrow.

Macbeth 2.1 OE

Students completed the following open-ended question in response to reading Act 2, scene 1 of Macbeth: 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.

Macbeth 1-5

We finished viewing act I of the film and then students were given an opportunity to revise the open-ended questions they previously completed for full credit. I covered the open-ended rubric and the expectations for their responses.

Macbeth

Today we read Act I, scenes 6-7 in the graphic novel and began the film. Will will finish viewing Act I of the film tomorrow and then begin reading again.

Macbeth Act I scenes 5-7

Today we read through scene 7 and completed the following worksheets: 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 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.

Macbeth open-ended question

The students completed the following question in class today: 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.

Macbeth

Today we read Act I, scenes 2-3 of Macbeth.

Macbeth Notes

We have begun taking background notes on Macbeth. We will finish the notes tomorrow and begin reading Act I.

Class of 2014

Welcome to English 11 CP-B. We will begin the year by reading Macbeth. We are currently working on an audio project concerning the first scene.