Next Quiz and Important Information

Next Week’s Quiz:

• Act II Vocabulary
• Act III Vocabulary
• Information from Act IV

The strange apparitions act as symbols that foreshadow the way the prophecies will be fulfilled. The armored head suggests war or rebellion, a telling image when connected to the apparition’s warning about Macduff. The bloody child obliquely refers to Macduff’s birth by cesarean section—he is not “of woman born”—attaching a clear irony to a comment that Macbeth takes at face value. The crowned child is Malcolm. He carries a tree, just as his soldiers will later carry tree branches from Birnam Wood to Dunsinane. Finally, the procession of kings reveals the future line of kings, all descended from Banquo.

                          

Notice the animals used in the spell- list them.

Dramatic irony:

By the pricking of my thumbs,

Something wicked this way comes

(Macbeth walks in- we already know from act three scene 6)

Irony

infected be the air whereon they ride, and damned all those that trust them

Points of focus:

1. Macduff’s self-defense speech(Be not offended….)

2. The list Malcolm gives for Macbeth’s evils.

3. Malcolm’s listings of his own shortcomings.(lust and greed) and how Macduff responds to them.

4. list the good qualities Malcolm gives of himself.

5. How King Edward of England cures the sick- political allusion- Shakespeare honoring the English King to please King James who attends the play) as opposed to Macbeth who ails his people. (juxtaposition)

6. what is a man- Malcolm and Macduff discuss what is a man- compare to Lady Macbeth’s what is a man.

Act III Vocabulary

Term Plan Term 4

Proper Journal and Essay Format

 Everyone's journal/essay should look like this from a distance. 

Your name, the date, class, and word count must be in the top left corner.

Go to Line Spacing Options

Choose Double under Spacing Options.

Indent Paragraph: Choose First Line by 0.5" under Special.

Make sure to center your Title. Do not make it fancy. Do not underline. Do not make it bold. Don't do anything special!

 Your Journals and Essays must be in Times New Roman and 12pt font. Every single word must be Times New Roman 12pt. Nothing different!

Journal Correction Code

This is the Journal/Essay correction code; expect to see these coded abbreviations on your next journal, if you have the following mistakes.

Code	Description
NT	Needs Thesis in Introduction
RT	Restate Thesis in Conclusion
CAP	Capitalize first letter of sentences and proper nouns
IP	Indent Paragraph
SPM	Spelling Mistakes
DS	Double Space
ROS	Run-on Sentences
FRG	Sentence Fragment
TPS	Needs Topic Sentences
OT	Off Topic
NI	No Introduction
NC	No Conclusion
WRC	Word Count Too Low
NGM	Numerous Grammar Mistakes

Journal Rubric

Week 3 Information

Proposal:

Due: Sunday April 29th 2012

Vocabulary Sheet Act 3

Due: Sunday April 29th 2012

Journal:

Due: Thursday April 26th 2012

Like all tyrants, Macbeth hires thugs and villains to do his dirty work for him. Write a paragraph saying how you think Macbeth’s moral condition seems to have changed from earlier scenes.

Must be three paragraphs with at least five sentences in each paragraph.

Macbeth’s soliloquy where he highlights his plans to get rid of Banquo and Fleance to guarantee that the witches’ prophecy for Banquo fails:

Notice the language of persuasion in Macbeth’s words with the hired murderers. He is trading roles with lady Macbeth using the same techniques she has used with him earlier to convince him of killing Duncan: He questions the murderers’ manhood.

1.     Lady Macbeth’s attitude towards her husband’s unhappiness and bloody desires.

2.    What does Macbeth mean by: “We have scorched the snake, not killed it.”- the snake is Duncan, and his death does not secure Macbeth as king just yet, Banquo has to be killed with his son to give more security to Macbeth’s reign.

3.    More on the theme of appearance vs. reality: “And make our face vizards to our hearts,”

4.    Why do you think Macbeth keeps his plan of killing Duncan and his son secret from Lady Macbeth?- theme of manhood.

5.    Theme of darkness (evil) vs. Light (goodness) is clear in Macbeth’s last speech.

Term 4 Project

Act 2 Vocabulary

Macbeth Posters

All posters must be professionally printed and contain an image presenting a theme or image from Macbeth. No more than two students can work on each poster. Make sure to include your names on the front of the poster.

Due: Tuesday April 3^rd 2012

Board Work

1.  Setting: Inverness

2.  Language of truth: compare between Banquo’s and Macbeth’s words- how would you describe each?(sharp contrast: Banquo-honest and  kind words, wishes to stay free of guilt therefore he refuses to be deceived by the witches’ words- fights against evil intentions. Macbeth on the other hand lies, uses phrases such as “ a friend”,”I think not of them”- highly deceptive.

3.  Supernatural happenings prior to Duncan’s death. (nature is angry- murdering of a king is an unnatural happening and therefore nature is aggressively responding)

4.“Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more.” (Important quote)

5. The porter and comic relief- an escape from the intensity of the murder scene.

6. The significance of the knocking- the gate of hell is waiting to open.(reference to Hecate- the goddess of crossroads.

7. Supernatural happenings prior to Duncan’s death. (Nature is angry- murdering of a king is an unnatural happening and therefore nature is aggressively responding)

8. The flight of Malcolm and Donaldbain

9. Macbeth elected king

10.       The porter: imagines he is the porter of hell and admits three types of people: a farmer who commits suicide bec of his bad crops, an equivocator who tells half-truths and a tailor who steals cloth to make garments for himself. All three examples allude to Macbeth. Like the farmer who harvests bad crops, Macbeth schemes evil and therefore brings on his own demise(an act of suicide)Like the equivocator he tells half-truths (his love and loyalty to Duncan and his denial of thinking of the witches’ prophecies, and like the tailor he steals the throne to fulfill personal ambition. All expressed in a comic way.

11.       Examples of pathetic fallacy: “the earth was feverous and did shake”

12.       Example of oxymoron: “joyful trouble”

13.       Dramatic irony: Macduff calling Lady Macbeth”gentle lady”

14.       Breach of nature: Duncan’s murder is described in terms of a breach of nature- implying a breach in social and political order of Scotland- chaos prevails.

Literary terms:

Oxymoron: conjoining contradictory terms

Pathetic fallacy: The attribution of human emotions or characteristics to inanimate objects or to nature; for example, angry clouds; a cruel wind.

Homework Week 6

Read until the end of act I

Journal 1 (Due: Tuesday March 20th)

Macbeth is fascinated with the witches’ prophecies, particularly with the one about him becoming king. Create your own soliloquy as Macbeth and describe your feelings about the prophecies and what they entail.

Board Work

Themes:

-           ambition

-           power

-           Gender

-           violence

-           blood

-           The supernatural

-           Time

-           Hubris

-           appearance Vs reality

-           light and darkness’ good Vs evil

-           crime and consequence

-           Betrayal
          In class discussion:

1.         Macbeth’s fixation on the witches’ prophecies, thus changing our initial perspective of Macbeth as hero.

2.         Notice the setting when the witches appear- thunder and lightning which is sinister.

3.         Also notice the witches’ language of contradiction. “fair is foul and foul is fair”, “lesser than Macbeth and greater” all contradictions point to the moral dilemma of the play- similar to Hamlet’s “To be or not to be”

4.         Lady Macbeth introduced through her soliloquies.

5.         “Unsex me here” uttered by L. Macbeth reveals he masculine nature. (gender conflict) Though a woman, L. Macbeth understands the superiority of men and wishes to abandon her feminine nature to gain strength to pursue her objective. 

5.         Males vs. females, who is more evil in this play? Females (the witches and their evil nature and lady Macbeth with her evil intentions) Then males are much kinder in this play.At least Macbeth is not so intent on killing Duncan as his wife. He is therefore accused of not being “man” enough.

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