English 10R-Wednesday, 5/31/17

Homework:

Read chapter 10 pages 69-78 with Active Reading post its and packet 

questions. (All of Chapter 10 will be due Friday.)

Respond:  Why are Ishmael’s cassettes so important to him? How influential is music in your life?  Why do people say that music is “universal”?   Explain.

 (HW prompt from yesterday-Collection: Write about a central idea for Chapter 9 using text evidence.)

-Share Active Reading post it notes and questions from Packet.

-Reading Day:  Chapter 10

English 10R-Tuesday, 5/30/17

Homework: 

1.      Read A Long Way Gone -Chapter 9 with packet questions and Active Reading post it notes.

2.      Discuss a central idea using text evidence from the chapter in your discussion (separate piece of paper!)

Classwork:

Respond on a separate piece of paper:

Discuss the impact of the conflicts Ishmael faces in chapters 4-8. How has he been affected or how has he changed from these experiences?   (Use your conflict chart from Friday and your reading of chapter 8 to respond with specific evidence-be prepared to share your response with the class.)

Audio/Listening Chapter 9:  Focus on a central idea in this chapter.

English 10R-Friday, 5/26/17

Homework: 

Read A Long Way Gone Chapter 8 with packet questions and Active Reading post it notes.

Classwork:  

Conflict Chart (If you were absent, please complete below with (3) different examples from chapters 4-7.)

Conflict Chart:  Complete in full (Include some text evidence in each section to support your discussion.)

Conflict:  What is the problem?

Source of Conflict:  How did is start?

Nature of Conflict:  What actually happened?  Is the conflict internal or external or both?  Explain.

Complications that affect the outcome: What problems make the situation even more difficult to deal with?

Outcome:  end result

To what extent does Beah have control over this conflict?  Explain.

English 10R-Thursday, 5/25/17

Homework: 

        Read A Long Way Gone: Chapters 6 and 7 with packet questions and Active Reading post it notes.

Classwork- 

Respond:  (Page 33) “Before the war a young man wouldn’t have dared to talk to anyone older in such a rude manner.  We grew up   in a culture that demanded good behavior from everyone, and       especially from the young.  Young people were required to respect     their elders and everyone in the community.”

What changed?  Explain.  What happened to the old man that was captured in Mattru Jong?

2.  Choose (1) Active Reading Post it from chapters 3-5.  On a post it or         in your notebook, explain why you chose this passage.  How does it relate to a bigger idea, conflict, theme, etc. so far in the book.

Discussion of post it notes for Chapters 3-5 with packet questions.

-Begin chapters 6 and 7 (with questions and Active Reading).

English 10R-Wednesday, 5/24/17

Homework: 

1.   Read A Long Way Gone : Chapters 4 and 5 with packet questions and ---Active Reading post it notes (to be checked).

 (If you will be out for any reason, please keep up with the reading calendar and questions.)

Classwork:  Close Reading Handout (Chapter 2)

(If you were absent, I will give you the handout tomorrow, and you can hand it in to me the next day.)

English 10R-Tuesday, 5/23/17

Homework: 

Read A Long Way Gone Chapters 2 and 3 with packet questions and Active Reading post it notes (to be checked).  Post it notes needed for this unit. If you don’t use post it notes, you will be required to fully write quotes with page numbers and discussion in your English notebook.

(Please bring books to class each day.  We will have some in class reading days.)

I.             Do Now:  Please take out A Long Way Gone book and post it notes for chapter 1.  (Packet-Chapter 1 questions and Reading Schedule)

-Active Reading Review:  Choose a significant passage as you read.  Track motifs, symbols, direct and indirect examples of characterization, themes, conflicts, make predictions and any other comment that you feel is important.

English 10R-Thursday, 5/18/17

Homework:  Review all notes, handouts, quotes, etc.

Final Macbeth Test:  Tomorrow! (..and tomorrow and tomorrow…)

**Post it notes required for our final reading unit (Active Reading)

I.             Do Now:  Please take out Macbeth packet and book.

Identify the speaker and explain:

1.   “Out, damned spot! Out, I say!” (Act V, Scene1)

          __________________________

2.   “I have supp'd full with horrors;
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts
Cannot once start me.” (Act V, Scene 5)

____________________

3.   __________________ is “a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”  (Act V, Scene 5)

4.   ________________ “was from his mother's womb
Untimely ripp'd.”  (Act V, Scene 8) Why is this significant?

II.Complete last page in packet:   “Themes in Macbeth” with specific examples and Motifs.

English 10R-Wednesday, 5/17/17

Homework:   

-Complete packet questions for Act V (pages 12 and 14)

Macbeth Unit Test Friday:  Quote Identification and Written Response.)

Classwork-(Review of all Act V Questions)

Re-read Scene 8 (185-191) Answer with text evidence.

1.           Why does Macbeth still have confidence when he first encounters Macduff?

2.           What does Macduff reveal about his birth (lines 19-20), and how does Macbeth react to Macduff’s revelation regarding his birth (lines 21-26)?

3.           What are Malcolm’s first acts as the new king of Scotland? (page 191)

Name___________________

Macbeth, Act V, Scene 5-Pages 177-179:

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

To the last syllable of recorded time;

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death.  Out, out, brief candle!   5

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage

And then is heard no more.  It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury

Signifying nothing.                                                       10

1.            According to Macbeth, what waits at the end of “all our yesterdays”?

2.       To what three things does Macbeth compare life in lines 6-10?

3.       What is the effect of the repetition of the word tomorrow?  What view does it express of the future?

4. In line 5 Macbeth is referring to more than putting out a candle.  What is he really talking about?

5. What value does Macbeth place on life, according to these lines? 

English 10R-Tuesday, 5/16/17

Homework: 

1.   Read/re-read Act V, Scenes 2-5 with questions (handout). Include text evidence in your responses.

2.   Begin Packet Questions (Due Thursday).

(Macbeth Unit:  Friday- Quote Identification and Written Response.)

I.            Do Now:  Please take out Macbeth book and notebook/post its and packet and Act IV questions.  (Review/Discuss)

II. Act IV Questions Packet page 10 Review and Act V, Scene 1.

III.     Act V continued……. Scenes 4-8 (page 173)

English 10R-Monday, 5/15/17

Homework:

1. Complete Act IV Questions in packet for tomorrow and Act V, Scene 1 questions with evidence for tomorrow.

2. Unit Test Friday:  Quote Identification and Written Response.

I.  Do Now:  Please take out your Macbeth book and packet.

II. Vocabulary Quiz

III. Act V continued with questions (Scenes 1 and 2)  page 161

  What is Lady Macbeth’s condition/frame of mind in this scene?  Choose and explain an important quote. 

 Name__________________                                                English 10R

Act V, Scene 1                              (Answer with evidence.)

1. What is the mental state of Lady Macbeth during the sleepwalking scene?

2. What does she carry? What does she do as she walks?

1.   How is Lady Macbeth’s statement (line 45) different from her comment about water made immediately after the murder?

2. Retell all that she reveals while sleepwalking.

3. What does the doctor fear will happen?  (lines 79-83)

 4.Analyze how Shakespeare refines a central idea through his development of the character of Lady Macbeth in this scene.

English 10R-Friday, 5/12/17

Homework:

Vocabulary Quiz-Monday:  All 20 words (study parts of speech with each word.)

I.            Do Now:  Please take out your Macbeth book, binder/post it notes and vocabulary words.  Please take out Act IV, Scene 3 questions from yesterday.

Fill in the blank.

  

1.   Those items are just ______________ (noun/plural) to me and hold no sentimental value.

2.   The nobles ________________ (ed) that Macbeth was responsible for the murder; They guessed this based on his odd behavior.

3.   Our relationship was ________________ (ed) and ruined after he betrayed my trust.

4.   The tension in the air was _____________(adjective) as they couldn’t even look one another in the eye.

5.   Helping the victims of the tragedy was a _________________ (adjective) deed worthy of praise and respect.

II. Scene 3-Close Reading  (Discussion)

Macbeth:  Act IV, Scene 3

Based on pages 151-157

1.   
How does Ross respond to Macduff’s questions about his family (lines 203–209)?

 

2.   
What effect does dramatic irony have on the scene up to this point? (Think about what we already know from the previous scene.)

3.    Why does Ross say to Macduff, “Let not your ears despise my tongue forever” (line 236)?

4.   
What effect does Shakespeare create through the interaction of Ross and Macduff in lines 200–243? How does he create this effect?

5.    Compare Macduff’s reaction to his family’s deaths to Lady Macduff’s reaction to Macduff’s departure in Act 4.2.

6.    What advice does Malcolm offer Macduff?

7.   


What do Malcolm and Macduff resolve to do at the end of this scene?

8.    Analyze the effect of Shakespeare’s structural choice in revealing to the audience and to Macduff that his family has been murdered.

III.   Begin Act V, Scene 1 (Page 161).   What is Lady Macbeth’s condition/frame of mind in this scene?  Choose and explain an important quote.

English 10R- Thursday, 5/11/17

Homework:

-Finish reading with questions for Act IV, Scene 3.

Vocabulary Quiz:  Monday, 5/15

 I.   Act IV, Scene 2 answers to HW questions below: Review

133-137 (Act IV, Scene 2) answer the following questions:

1.    What words or phrases develop your understanding of how Lady Macduff feels about Macduff?

2.    What metaphor does Lady Macduff use to illustrate Macduff’s “madness” (line 1-4)?

3.    How does this figurative language develop a central idea in this scene?

II.   Page 137                                             Act 4.2, lines 71–97

1.   What news does the Messenger have for Lady Macduff? (lines 71-77)

2.   Paraphrase Lady Macduff’s response to the Messenger. (Lines 81-87)

3.   How do the murder of Lady Macduff and her son develop a central idea in this scene?

 III.  Scene 3 Page 139-149: Read and respond:  (Act IV, Scene 3 Lines 1-70)

What words or phrases does Macduff use to describe Macbeth?

What words or phrases does Malcolm use to describe Macbeth?

avarice:  greed

pernicious:  having a harmful effect

1.   Why does Malcolm “test” Macduff? Why might he be skeptical of Macduff’s motives?

2.   How does he test him? What kind of king does Malcolm say he would be?

3.   How does Macduff respond to all of this? (120-131)

4.   Finally, what does Malcolm reveal about his true nature? (page 147, lines 132-156)

Scene 3-Close Reading  (Homework Questions)

Macbeth:  Act IV, Scene 3

Based on pages 151-157

1.    How does Ross respond to Macduff’s questions about his family (lines 203–209)?

2.    What effect does dramatic irony have on the scene up to this point? (Think about what we already know from the previous scene.)

3.    Why does Ross say to Macduff, “Let not your ears despise my tongue forever” (line 236)?

4.    What effect does Shakespeare create through the interaction of Ross and Macduff in lines 200–243? How does he create this effect?

5.    Compare Macduff’s reaction to his family’s deaths to Lady Macduff’s reaction to Macduff’s departure in Act 4.2.

6.    What advice does Malcolm offer Macduff?

7.    What do Malcolm and Macduff resolve to do at the end of this scene?

8.    Analyze the effect of Shakespeare’s structural choice in revealing to the audience and to Macduff that his family has been murdered.