English 10R-Friday, 4/28/17

HW:  NONE

Classwork

Identify the speaker and explain:

1.   “My hands are of your color; but I shame/
To wear a heart so white.” (Act II, 2)

2.   “A little water clears us of this deed:
How easy is it, then!” (Act II, 2)

3.    “Let us meet and question this most bloody piece of work.

….I fight/Of treasonous malice.”  (Act II, 3)

  

II.            Act III, Scene 1 (page 81):  Listen and Respond

Macbeth                                                      Act III, Scene 1 (pgs. 81-91)

1. (Lines 1-10) Summarize Banquo’s soliloquy.

-What “fear” does Banquo express? (2 and 3)

-What “cause of state” does Macbeth intend to discuss with Banquo “tomorrow”? (36-37)

2. What is Banquo going to be doing until dinner?

3. What is Banquo’s son’s name?

4. Reread Lines 52-77 “To be thus is nothing….” to “Who’s there?” Use text evidence in your responses.

-What words repeat in lines 51-61?  What is the impact of these repetitions?

-Given these repetitions, paraphrase Macbeth’s opening lines in this soliloquy.

-Why does Macbeth “fear” Banquo?

  

-What does it mean for Macbeth if the Witches’ prophecy for Banquo comes true?

  

-What has Macbeth done for “Banquo’s issue” (line 70)?

English 10R-Thursday, 4/27/17

Homework: NONE

Classwork-

Quick Review:  Quiz-Act 1

Respond: 

1.   Macduff becomes an important character in the three remaining acts.  Describe how Shakespeare characterizes him (what does he say and do) in Scenes 3 and 4. (Text Evidence).

2.   Banquo:  What problem might he pose for the Macbeths in the next act? Be specific.

3.   Discussion of Act II packet questions (1-6) and Central Idea (Scene 4)

English 10R-Wednesday, 4/26/17

Homework: 

1.   Complete packet page 6 (Act II questions-#4 and #5-include text evidence in your response.)

2.   Respond:  How do key details from today’s reading further develop a central idea?

Classwork:  

Act II, Scene 3: Questions (Review)

Discuss a central idea for Act II, Scene 3.  Use text evidence from today’s reading and discussion in your response.

Repent:  (verb) to feel or express sincere regret or remorse about one's wrongdoing or sin.

Read Scene 4 with questions: 

1.   The orderly scheme of nature is strangely affected by the murder.  Shakespeare skillfully lets nature correspond to man’s acts.  How is this revealed by the conversation in this scene?

2.   Who is named successor to King Duncan?  Why?

3.   Where is the coronation to be held?

4.   Who will not be attending the coronation?

English 10R-Tuesday, 4/25/17

Homework: 

1.      Packet page 6 questions 1-3. Complete today's Act II, Scene 3 questions.

2.      Discuss a central idea for Act II, Scene 3.  Use text evidence from today’s reading and discussion in your response.

I.            Do Now:  Please take out your notebooks/post its, Macbeth book and questions from yesterday (Act II, Scene 2) and Partner Clocks.

Respond: 

1.   How do the responses to the murder of Duncan differ between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth? (pages 59-61 Provide text evidence)

2.   Discuss how the motif of sleep or sleeplessness is developed throughout Act II, Scene 2.  (Use yesterday’s questions.)

Motif:  a recurring object, concept, or structure in a work of literature. Motifs are used to establish a theme or a certain mood; they have a symbolic meaning but are not symbols.

3.   Write a brief prediction:  What can you infer about changes that might occur in both Macbeth and L. Macbeth as the play progresses?

Answer the following questions for Act II, Scene 3 pages 65-73.

1. Explain how comic relief is provided by the porter’s speech. (pages 61-63)

2. Who finds Duncan’s body? (Page 65)

3. In lines 61-70 (page 65) Lennox and Macbeth discuss the night and nature.  How does this correspond to the events in Macbeth’s castle?

4. Explain the dramatic irony when Macduff says: “O gentle lady! ‘Tis not for you to hear what I can speak…” (page 67)

5. What has Macbeth done when he says, “O’ yet I do repent me of my fury?” (page 69)

6. How does he explain what he has done to the gathered group? (Lines 127-137)

7. What does Banquo decide to do, and why do you think he does not accuse Macbeth of murder? (provide evidence-page 71)

8. Who are Malcolm and Donalbain?

9. What do they decide to do after King Duncan is murdered?  Why?  (71) (Find text evidence to support their reactions.)

10. “Where we are /There’s daggers in men’s smiles.” –Who said it?  Explain. (pgs. 71-73)

English 10R-Monday, 4/24/17

Homework: 

Complete today’s handout then respond:

In Act I Lady Macbeth seems to be planning to murder Duncan herself.  But in Act II, at the last moment, she is unable to (page 55, lines 15-17).  Consider her reason, and decide what her actions and explanations reveal about her character.

Today:  Close Reading with questions

MACBETH Act II, Scene 2

MACBETH

There's one did laugh in's sleep, and one cried                 30
'Murder!'
That they did wake each other: I stood and heard them:
But they did say their prayers, and address'd them
Again to sleep.                                                                  35

LADY MACBETH

There are two lodged together.

MACBETH

One cried 'God bless us!' and 'Amen' the other;             
As they had seen me with these hangman's hands.
Listening their fear, I could not say 'Amen,'
When they did say 'God bless us!'                                    40

LADY MACBETH

Consider it not so deeply.

MACBETH

But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'?
I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen'
Stuck in my throat.

LADY MACBETH

These deeds must not be thought                                      45
After these ways; so, it will make us mad.

MACBETH

Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!                     
Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,                50
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast,--

LADY MACBETH

What do you mean?

MACBETH

Still it cried 'Sleep no more!' to all the house:
'Glamis hath murder'd sleep, and therefore Cawdor              55
Shall sleep no more; Macbeth shall sleep no more.'

Answer the following based on the excerpt above.

1.      Circle all references to sleep in this excerpt, and annotate along the side of the text.

  

2.      What couldn’t Macbeth say back, and why does this bother him so much?

  

3.      In lines 49-52 above, how does Macbeth personify sleep? Explain.

  

4.      Explain the last two lines.

  

5.      What does this scene reveal about Macbeth’s character? Be specific.

English 10R-Friday, 4/21/17

Homework:

-Finish today’s questions with detail.

-Write a paragraph discussing the central idea of Act II, Scene 1-using text evidence from today’s questions to support your discussion. (Separate sheet of paper please!)

Classwork:  Act II, Scene 1:  What effect is created by the opening lines of this scene? What time is it?

 Close Reading:  Page 51-53

            Macbeth:  Act II, Scene 1

1.    Where is Duncan during this scene? Support your answer with evidence from the text.

2.    What signs of “unusual pleasure” has the King given in lines 15–20?

3.    Of whom does Banquo say that he has been dreaming? How does this develop your understanding of his words in lines 8–11?

4.    What do Macbeth and Banquo agree to do in lines 29–41?

5.    What does Macbeth see in lines 44–45?

6.    Whom or what does Macbeth address in lines 45–46? What does he attempt to do in these lines?

7.    Paraphrase Macbeth’s questions in lines 48–51. How do Macbeth’s questions develop a central idea of the play?

8.    What does Macbeth do in line 53? How does this impact the mood of the scene?

9.    How does Shakespeare develop the image of the dagger in lines 57–59?

10. What conclusion does Macbeth reach about the dagger in lines 59–61?

11. Paraphrase lines 61–63.

12. How do Shakespeare’s specific word choices in these lines contribute to the mood of the scene?

13. What does the ringing of the bell between line 74 and 75 signify?

English 10R-Thursday, 4/20/17

Homework:

Using vocabulary words 11-15, write a paragraph about something spooky, scary or creepy!

Today-Act I: Quiz

-Review of Vocabulary sentences words 6-10

  

III.       Act II, Scene 1:  Page 49

Vocabulary: 

repose-(noun) the act of resting

summons-(noun) a call to action

“How goes the night, boy?” Banquo Act II, Scene 1 (Lines 1-40)

 

1.   What time is it at the beginning of the scene? Support your answer with evidence from lines 1–4.

2.   What does Banquo mean by “the cursèd thoughts that nature / Gives way to in sleep” (lines 10–11)? How does this impact your understanding of Banquo’s words in lines 8–9?

3.   What effect does Shakespeare create in lines 1–14?

English 10R-Wednesday, 4/19/17

Macbeth Act I Quiz Tomorrow:  Plot, characters, conflict and quote identification/explanations.

-Vocabulary Sentences words 6-10 (due tomorrow)

**Please bring your Macbeth book and notebook back to class tomorrow!

Today:  Act I Storyboard presentations/Review of Act I

English 10R-Thursday, 4/6/17

Homework-

1.Finish Act I, Scene 7 Questions from class today with text evidence.

2. Briefly discuss a central idea for Act I, Scene 7

I.            Do Now:  Please take out your notebook, Macbeth book and post its.

Respond in your notebook-

Identify the speaker, and explain the following quotes:

1.“There’s no art

To find the mind’s construction in the face.

He was a gentleman on whom I built

An absolute trust.”  (Act I, Scene 4)

2.“Thy letters have transported me beyond

This ignorant present, and I feel now

The future in the instant. (Act I, Scene 5)

3.Summarize Scene 6:  What examples of dramatic irony are present, and what might be the purpose of this scene?

  

Finish Act 1:  Scene 7 with close reading questions.

Scene 7 Questions:

1.    How do the opening lines of Macbeth’s soliloquy reveal his state of mind?

2.    What reasons does Macbeth give for not assassinating Duncan (lines 1-27)?

Respond using text evidence whenever possible:

3.    Reread lines 29–96 from “How now, what news?” to “False face must hide what the false heart doth / know.”

What reasons does Macbeth give for proceeding “no further in this business” in lines 35–38? What is “the business” to which Macbeth refers in line 34?

4.    Paraphrase the arguments Lady Macbeth offers (lines 39–49 and 54–68) to counter Macbeth’s concerns.

5.    What is Lady Macbeth’s plan for murdering Duncan? (43)

6.    How do Macbeth’s contributions to the murder plot develop his character? (43)

7.    In the closing lines of the scene, how do both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth demonstrate that they are following Lady Macbeth’s earlier advice to “Look like th’ innocent / flower; / But be the serpent under ‘t” (Act 1.5, lines 76–78)?

English 10R-Tuesday, 4/4/17

Homework: 

In a few sentences respond:

How is Lady Macbeth’s character developed throughout our reading so far?  Be specific and provide examples.

Tomorrow:  Holocaust Day

Quiz Act I: After break (Wednesday or Thursday)

 II.         Scene 5

1.   Lady Macbeth says of Macbeth, “Yet I do fear thy nature.  It is too full O’ the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way.”  Explain what she means by this. (page 31)

2.  Paraphrase Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy (lines 45-61, page 33). Provide text evidence to support the main ideas.

3.   Macbeth arrives.  What do he and Lady Macbeth discuss? (Provide text evidence in your discussion.)

4.   Look at page 35: Copy lines 76-78, and Explain. What do Macbeth and Lady Macbeth discuss in the closing of this scene?

5.   How does Shakespeare’s choice to end the scene with Lady Macbeth’s statement, “Leave all the rest to me” impact the development of Lady Macbeth’s character?

III.       Read and summarize Act I, Scene 6

English 10R-Monday, 4/3/17

Homework: 

Discuss a central idea from today’s reading.  Include text evidence in your response.

Classwork:

Act 1, Scene 3 (page-25)-Reread.

1.  Refer to lines 157–159: “If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me / Without my stir.” What is the meaning of stir in these lines?

2.  What does Macbeth mean in lines 157–159 that “chance may / crown me / Without my stir”?

3.  What has been achieved dramatically by the end of Scene 3? 

Identify the speaker and explain each quote for Act I.

1.   “Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.”  (Act I, 3-page 19)

2.   “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.” (Act I, 3-Bottom of page 23)

  

II.          Scene 4 (pages 25-29)-Post it and discuss significant sections of this scene.

Scene 4

1.   To whom does King Duncan give the title Prince of Cumberland?

2.   What does Macbeth think about this?  Find a quote on page 29, lines 55-60 to support your answer.

Scene 5-(Pages 31-39)

1.   How is the format of Macbeth’s letter different from the format of the other lines in the play?

2.   What can you infer about the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth based on the contents of this letter?