Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Wednesday, September 24, Analyzing and complete Act 1

Objective: By the end of class, student will study the three steps to analyzing and complete ACT 1 of Macbeth in order to improve reading comprehension skills and improve ability to answer constructed response questions.

DO NOW - write this into your notebooks:

THREE STEPS TO ANALYZING

1.    Restate the question into a first sentence.
2.     Then explain what you want to discuss:
3.     Use a quote from the text to support your idea and then add a closing sentence that goes back to beginning.

Example for first step:

Analyze Macbeth’s soliloquy on pages 21-23 and discuss his internal conflict.

Change this to:

In Macbeth’s soliloquy on pages 21-23, he has an internal conflict.


Example for 2nd step:

Macbeth is considering murdering King Duncan even though he knows it is wrong. He is only considering it because the witches told him he would someday be King, and Macbeth wants it NOW.


Example for third step:

Macbeth is worried though. He says, “ even though it is just fantasy so far, the mere thought of committing murder shakes me up so much that I hardly know who I am anymore.”  Macbeth is left with his internal conflict of what to do.

Direct Instruction

Begin plot structure for Macbeth

Read Act 1, scenes 5-7.

Guided / Independent

Monday, you wrote down some character traits from the biographies in the front of the book. Now that you have read much of ACT 1, add a character trait to the following characters:
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Banquo 
Duncan 

Identify the page number and the quote where you found this information. Do this in your notebooks so you can use it as reference on the next essay assignment.

Example:
Lady Macbeth is AGGRESSIVE like men are suppose to be, not women. Page 33 -  "...make me less like a woman and more like a man and fill me with deadly cruelty!"  

Check for understanding

When you have completed one example for each of the two characters you chose, call me over to show me so you receive credit for your work. 

Closure 

View ACT 1
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Exit Pass






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