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.
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