English 10R-Wednesday, 5/10/17

Homework: 

Complete Handout-Read Act IV Scenes 1 and 2 with questions.

Vocabulary Quiz:  Monday, 5/15/17

I.    Do Now:  Please take out your Macbeth book, packet and post it notes/notebook.

-Read/Listen:   Act IV, Scene 1 (pages 119-131)

Respond in your notebook/post its:

Macbeth seeks counsel from the weird sisters who show him a series of apparitions.

  

Act IV, Scene 1

1.   Rewrite the message given to Macbeth by each of the following apparitions:  (Include text evidence in each response.) 125-127

 

-First Apparition:  an armed head. (Lines 81-82)

 

-Second Apparition:  a bloody child. (Lines 90-92)

-Third Apparition:  a child crowned with a tree in his hand. (Lines 105-107)

 

How do these apparitions make Macbeth feel?

2.   What does Macbeth still desire to know (lines 115–117)?

 

3.    How do the interactions between Macbeth and the Witches affect Macbeth’s state of mind in this scene?

4.   Explain the irony in the following statement by Macbeth:

“Infected be the air whereon they ride/And damn’d all those that trust them…” (lines 157-158)

5.   At the end of Act 4.1, what does Macbeth decide to do? Why?

Act IV:  Scene 2 (Read)

  

English 10R-Homework

Homework

1.   Respond: 

How do the witches’ interaction with Macbeth in Act IV, Scene 1, further advance the plot?  Use text evidence in your response.

2.   Also, read 133-137 (Act IV, Scene 2) on your own and answer the following questions:

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

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

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