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)