Today, I need to give you some time to work on writing sentences with your vocabulary. Then we need to move onto Act 5.
Scene 1
1) What do the nurse (gentlewoman) and the doctor see?
2) What does Lady Macbeth mean when she says, “Out, damned spot! Out, I say!...will these hands never be clean.”
3) What is wrong with Lady Macbeth at this point of the play?
Scene 2
1) What happens in this scene? What new characters are introduced? Why?
2) What is the significance of the scene?
3) What is meant when Caithness says, “Some say he’d mad; others that lesser hate him do call it valiant fury”?
Scene 3
1) How would you describe Macbeth’s attitude and mood in this scene?
2) Why isn’t Macbeth afraid? Do his soldier’s seem afraid? Why or why not?
Scene 4
1) What does Malcolm order the soldiers to do?
Scene 5
1) What is meant when Macbeth says, “She should have died here-after”?
2) What is the significant of the following quote, “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is told no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing.”
Scene 6
1) What is important about this scene?
Scene 7
1) Who does Macbeth kill in this scene? What is significant about this death?
Scene 8
1) What happens in this scene?
2) Why does Macbeth lose heart in the fight against Macduff?
3) Who is named king at the end of the play?
Shakespeare: Tragedy
OBJECTIVES: At the end of this unit students will be able to
Knowledge:
1) List the five elements of tragedy
2) List the five elements of a tragic hero
3)
Define theme, plot, setting, foreshadow, oxymoron, soliloquy,
personification, dramatic foil, metaphor (three types), symbol, simile
Comprehension:
4) Identify a metaphor (direct, implied, extended), simile, pun or symbol within the play
5) Give a brief description of all the characters and their roles in the play
6) Given a line of dialogue identify the speaker
7)
Outline the plot and break in up into exposition, inciting event,
rising action, climax, falling action and catastrophe (or resolution)
8) Summarize each scene into a headline
9) Identify the tragic hero and his/her tragic flaw
10) Discuss the motivations of all major characters (why they do the things they do)
Application
11) Demonstrate an understanding of a scene in a drawing
12) Demonstrate a relation of characters to contemporary times through a simulation
13)
Demonstrate an understanding of characters and acting techniques by
writing out a script (including the lines, subtext, emotion or tone, and
blocking) and acting out the scene from memory
14) Demonstrate an
understanding of the play by writing journal entries and in-class
writing assignments including a Dear Abbey Letter, interviews, diary
entries from characters’ perspective, personal responses, and in-class
presentations on characters.
15) Demonstrate an understanding of parts of the play by translation Shakespeare’s lines into contemporary English
16) Write a poem or a rap about Macbeth
17) Research a character: the different critical views and present findings to class
Analysis
18) Write a analysis paper on some element or question of Macbeth
Unit Learning goal: At the end of this Unit students will be able to analysis a motif found in Macbeth, create a thesis, and connect the motif to the meaning of the play as a whole by writing a short 2-3 page essay.
Scale/Rubric relating to learning goal:
4 – The student is able to combine more than one motif into a thesis statement, and answer it by evaluating the text and using specifics to back up his/her position.
3 – The student can choose a motif, develop it into a thesis statement, and analyze the text using specific evidence to back up their position.
2 – With some direction/help from the teacher the student can choose a motif, develop it into a thesis statement, and analyze the text using specific evidence to back up their position.
1 – Even with help from the teacher the student is unable to choose a motif, or develop it into a thesis statement, and analyze the text using specific evidence to back up their position.
OBJECTIVES: At the end of this unit students will be able to
• List the five elements of tragedy
• List the five elements of a tragic hero
• Discuss Macbeth’s tragic flaw
• Discuss who wins in Macbeth and why? Who is the hero?
• Define soliloquy and monologue and point to examples from Macbeth
• Outline the plot according to the six elements of plot: exposition, inciting event, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution (give at least three events for the rising and falling action)
• Identify the following characters and discuss they roles in the play (Who they are, What they do, Why the do what they do)
Macbeth Macduff The Porter
Lady Macbeth Lady Macduff The Witches
Duncan Lennox The Doctor
Malcolm Ross The Bloody Captain
Donalbain Seyton Fleance
Banquo Menteith Siward
• Discuss and give examples of the following THEMES:
--Blind Ambition
--The Corruption of Power
--Appearance vs. Reality
--Superstition and how it affects human behavior
--Good vs. Evil
• Discuss the following symbols/motifs (what people and/or ideas the represent and connect them to a theme)
--washing of hands --blood
--planting of seeds, things growing
--the atmosphere of Macbeth’s castle
--spells or chants and supernatural beings
--weather --daggers
--spirits, scorpions, snakes and things in the mind
--birds and flying:
Eagles Crows
Sparrows Geese
Owl Wren
Martlet
Falcon
• Identify the speaker and the significant of important and famous quotes from the following characters:
Witches, Apparitions, Banquo, Duncan, Macduff, Malcolm, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, The Bloody Captain, Lady Macduff, Ross
• Know and review your study questions for each Act (you should have done these for homework). Some of these questions will be on the test.
No comments:
Post a Comment