Macbeth  Act II  and Poetry Submission Assignments

Friday, March 3 (B, F)

Read Act II scene i and complete the double-sided reading guide. 

Monday, March 6  -IF YOU HAVEN'T YET, TURN IN FINAL DRAFT OF POEM

Read Act II scene ii

Write down :

1) At least three specific elements that make this scene suspenseful

2) At least five references to sleep. What do you make of them?

3) Three separate text examples that show Macbeth or Lady Macbeth on the spectrum of FEAR - COURAGE - RASHNESS

Tuesday, March 7 (A,B) Wednesday, March 9 (F)
Submit your poem to the poetry website:

student.LHSpoem.org
(Make sure that you have had me proofread your final copy before submitting)
IMPORTANT NOTES: 1) PLEASE SUBMIT AS A WORD DOC. IF ON GOOGLE DOC NOW, THEN DOWNLOAD IT AS A WORD FILE THEN SUBMIT THE FILE.  2) PLEASE ALERT YOUR PARENTS TO LOOK FOR THE PERMISSION SLIP - POSSIBLY IN THEIR SPAM FOLDER.  A PARENT SIGNATURE IS ESSENTIAL FOR PUBLICATION.

Wednesday, March 8 (A) Thursday, March 9 (B, F)

Construct an Argument Map to state and support your claim about whether or not Macbeth gains your sympathy.

Thursday, March 9 

In-class writing (Sympathy paragraph)

Tuesday, March 14 (A,B) Wednesday, March 15 (F)

Read Act II scene iii.  Include the following key words in either a specific  clarifying question or a text-based observation.
1.  The Porter  2.  The night   3. "In our house"  4. Macbeth's reaction  5.  "Help me hence, ho!"
6.  A motif  7. Malcolm and Donaldbain

Wednesday, March 15 (A) Thursday, March 16 (B,F)
Acts I and II  50 point test (Vocabulary, Identification, Literary elements)

Thursday, March 16  (A) Friday, March 17 (B, F)
Monthly Writing

Macbeth Act I Assignments

Macbeth Act I Assignments

Tuesday, February 28(A,B) Wednesday March 1(F)

Read to Act I scene vii line 28

Complete the worksheet on Macbeth’s soliloquy

Wednesday, March 1 (A) Thursday March 2 (B,F)

Macbeth Act 1 Reading Practice Test (Identification, vocabulary, motifs, class discussions).   Spend  @ 45 minutes responding to the Practice Test questions - finish tomorrow in class.

Assignments to February Vacation

Thursday, February 2
Hard copy of revised poem for  with annotated rubrics

Thursday, February 2 (A) Friday, February 3 (B,F)
January Monthly Writing

Monday, February 6

Citing your sources:

Provide 3-5 historical facts about King James I of England

Provide 3-5 more personal aspects of the man (his ideas, interests, and personality) that make him an interesting figure.

Put yourself in Shakespeare’s place in 1606.  Based upon the experiences and proclivities of this King less than two years, identify at least three elements you might incorporate into your play that would please him.

Tuesday, February 7 (A,B) Wednesday, February 8 (F)

Consulting ”Characters in the Play” (page 3) complete the guided notes “Macbeth Characters in the Play”

Wednesday, February 8 (A) Thursday February 9 (B,F)

From either your own experience, literature, history, or contemporary sources, provide a modern-day example of equivocation.  Write a brief analysis that points out its misleading language designed to hide rather than to illuminate the truth,  and your position of its ethical merits or shortcomings.

Wednesday, February 15 (A) Thursday, February 16 (B,F)

Read Macbeth Act 1 up to scene iv) (line 175 page 25)

Provide at least three specific text examples for Macbeth and three for Banquo that indicate how their language reveals their position on the scale of FEAR - COURAGE – RASHNESS

Thursday, February 16 (A) Friday, February 17 (B,F)

Read Act I to scene vi.

Write a response to Lady Macbeth’s words that will “Shake [her] fell purpose” by being the voice of her better nature, “The Compunctious Visitings of Nature”. Refute at least three of her language choices by showing their relation to particular motifs or to where they lie on the scale of FEAR –COURAGE –RASHNESS. Include, in your response the consequences you believe that her language will engender.