English 10R-Thursday, 5/4/17

Homework:

1.  Complete Act III Questions:  Packet page 8.

2.  Act II:  Review Sheet

Quiz:  Acts II and III Tuesday (Review all notes and completed packet questions.)

I.            Do Now:  Please take out your Macbeth book, post its, packet and partner clocks.

Act III:  Identify the speaker and explain the situation.

1.  “Then,prophet-like,/They hail’d him father to a line of kings.Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown/And put a barren scepter in my gripe…”  (Act III, Scene 1 )

 

2.      “Come, seeling night,/Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day

And with thy bloody and invisible hand/Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond/Which keeps me pale.” (Act III, Scene 2)

(Underline and label the poetic device in the above quote as well.)

3.      “There the grown serpent lies. The worm that’s fled

Hath nature that in time will venom breed.” (Act III, Scene 4)

  

II.         (Scenes 5 and 6)

Scene 5:  Listen and summarize (pages 111-113)

1.   Who is Hecate, and why is she mad?

2.   What will the witches prepare for Macbeth when he arrives? (lines 26-31  )

3.   What is mortals’ “chiefest enemy”?  (top of 113)

 

Scene 6:  Listen and respond (pages 113-115)

1.   Describe the state of affairs in Scotland by the end of this Act. (Find a quote/passage to support your description)-page 115.

2.   Where has Macduff gone?  Why?  Who else is there?

Act II-Review

Scene 1

1.                  With what words does Banquo reaffirm his loyalty to King Duncan?

  

2.                  Explain the dramatic irony in Duncan’s gift to Lady Macbeth.

3.                  How does Macbeth lie to Banquo in this scene?

4                    What does the bell signal?

Scene 2

1.                  What seems unusual about the contrasting ways that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth react to the murder?  In what ways is Lady Macbeth more depraved, evil and wicked than her husband?

  

Scene 3

1. What purpose does the scene with the porter serve?

2. Who are Macbeth’s second and third victims?  What reason does he give for killing them?  Why does Lady Macbeth faint?

3. Where do Malcolm and Donalbain go?

Scene 4

1. What seems to be Macduff’s attitude toward the murder and its aftermath?