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)?