Objective: By the end of class, students will continue to read and analyze Macbeth with a focus on developing writing and literacy skills in order to prepare for keystones and make real life connections.
DO NOW
How and why can too much confidence result in defeat? can you provide an example of a time when either you (or a team) had too much confidence?
Direct Instruction
Read Act 4 scenes 2-4.
Guided / Independent
Answer study guide questions for act 4.
Check for Understanding
review answers to study guide questions
Closure
View through Act 4.
Exit Pass
Exit Pass
Who do you think sent Ross to warn Lady Macduff that her life was in danger? (pages 147-149).
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Thursday, October 9 - Act 4 - the three Apparitions
Objective: By the end of class, students will continue to read and analyze Macbeth with a focus on developing writing and literacy skills in order to prepare for keystones and make real life connections.
DO NOW
Define the following words and write definitions in notebooks and write a sentence for each on small paper to hand in:
1. REGAL(adj) - royal: of royalty
2. Impending (verb) - about to happen
3. Wayward (adj)- difficult to control or predict because of unusual or perverse behavior.
4. Lineage (noun) - descendants from an ancestor in order of progression; ancestry or pedigree
Direct Instruction
The Three Apparitions - click here
How do you interpret each of these messages from the witches?
Read Act 4 scenes 1 & 2.
Constructed responses - choose one of the two and and write me the best constructed response you have yet!! remember to restate, explain/discuss, backup with a quote and write a concluding sentence. in the evaluation, add your opinion.
1. Hecate'says " As you all know, overconfidence is a man's greatest enemy." Analyze how the prophecies made by the three apparitions represent this statement and then how they make Macbeth feel overconfident.
2. Evaluate Macbeth's behavior and interpretation of the apparitions. Do you think if he was more cautious, he could change his destiny?
Closure
View through act 4 scene 2.View ACT 1
click here
Exit Pass
Who do you think sent Ross to warn Lady Macduff that her life was in danger? (pages 147-149).
DO NOW
Define the following words and write definitions in notebooks and write a sentence for each on small paper to hand in:
1. REGAL(adj) - royal: of royalty
2. Impending (verb) - about to happen
3. Wayward (adj)- difficult to control or predict because of unusual or perverse behavior.
4. Lineage (noun) - descendants from an ancestor in order of progression; ancestry or pedigree
Direct Instruction
The Three Apparitions - click here
How do you interpret each of these messages from the witches?
Read Act 4 scenes 1 & 2.
Constructed responses - choose one of the two and and write me the best constructed response you have yet!! remember to restate, explain/discuss, backup with a quote and write a concluding sentence. in the evaluation, add your opinion.
1. Hecate'says " As you all know, overconfidence is a man's greatest enemy." Analyze how the prophecies made by the three apparitions represent this statement and then how they make Macbeth feel overconfident.
2. Evaluate Macbeth's behavior and interpretation of the apparitions. Do you think if he was more cautious, he could change his destiny?
Closure
View through act 4 scene 2.View ACT 1
click here
Exit Pass
Who do you think sent Ross to warn Lady Macduff that her life was in danger? (pages 147-149).
Monday, October 6, 2014
Wednesday, October 8, ACT 3 QUIZ
Objective: By the end of class, students will be assessed on their comprehensive knowledge of ACT 3 in order to determine use of active reading strategies to succeed on all sections of Keystone exams.
DO NOW
You have the entire 45 minutes to complete 36 multiple choice questions. 2 points each / Open book.
Get a Macbeth book, take out your notebook and begin your multiple choice Act 3 test. Be sure to read each question carefully, use multiple choice strategies and DO NOT LEAVE ANY BLANKS!!
Check for Understanding
Notebook check for 50 points
Exit Pass - Extra Credit
Analyze Hecate's statement - 'Overconfidence is man's greatest enemy." (Act 3, scene 5). What does this statement foreshadow (hint at what is going to happen next?)
DO NOW
You have the entire 45 minutes to complete 36 multiple choice questions. 2 points each / Open book.
Get a Macbeth book, take out your notebook and begin your multiple choice Act 3 test. Be sure to read each question carefully, use multiple choice strategies and DO NOT LEAVE ANY BLANKS!!
Check for Understanding
Notebook check for 50 points
Exit Pass - Extra Credit
Analyze Hecate's statement - 'Overconfidence is man's greatest enemy." (Act 3, scene 5). What does this statement foreshadow (hint at what is going to happen next?)
Tuesday, October 7, Macbeth Act 3 and foreshadowing
Objective: By the end of class, students will continue to read and analyze Macbeth with a focus on developing writing and literacy skills in order to prepare for keystones and make real life connections
DO NOW
Write a sentence for each of the following vocabulary words using context clues on the paper provided and then write definitions into notebooks:
1. Scorn - the feeling or belief that someone or something is worthless or despicable; contempt.
2. Foil -prevent (something considered wrong or undesirable) from succeeding.
3. Apparition - a ghost or ghostlike image of a person.
Direct Instruction
Foreshadowing
Guided / Independent
Constructed responses:
1. Analyze the shifts in behavior of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth. Do you think there is more of a feminine side to lady macbeth than she cares to admit?
2. Although Macduff does not speak in this ACT, we learn a lot about him. Analyze his behavior at the end of Act 3, scene 6. What does his behavior foreshadow (what is going to happen next)?
3. Macbeth respects his wife. Find an example of this in Act 3 / scene 4.
Check for understanding
Review individually
Closure
View film through Act 3 for reinforcement.
Exit Pass
If the climax of Shakespeare's plays are in ACT 3 (according to plot structure), what is the climax of the Tragedy of Macbeth?
Sunday, October 5, 2014
Monday, October 6, Foreshadowing / Act 3
Objective: By the end of class, students will continue to read and analyze Macbeth with a focus on developing writing and literacy skills in order to prepare for keystones and make real life connections
DO NOW
TEMPTATION IS A MAJOR THEME OF MACBETH. Thc witches were masters of temptation. They knew exactly how to tempt Macbeth and also appeal to his ego.What tempts you? Choose one - everlasting life, money, power or wisdom - what would you be willing to do to have one of them and why?
Direct Instruction
Review multiple choice quiz
HANDOUT PRACTICE MULTIPLE CHOICE TO GOWITH ACT 3.
Foreshadowing
Complete Act 3 reading
Guided / Independent
Complete study guide questions for Act 3
One constructed response- Analyze the shifts in behavior of lady macbeth and macbeth. Do you think there is more of a feminine side to lady macbeth than she cares to admit?
Closure
View through Act 3 for reinforcement
Ext Pass
Confidence is a good thing but over-confidence can result in laziness or complacency. Explain.
TEMPTATION IS A MAJOR THEME OF MACBETH. Thc witches were masters of temptation. They knew exactly how to tempt Macbeth and also appeal to his ego.What tempts you? Choose one - everlasting life, money, power or wisdom - what would you be willing to do to have one of them and why?
Direct Instruction
Review multiple choice quiz
HANDOUT PRACTICE MULTIPLE CHOICE TO GOWITH ACT 3.
Foreshadowing
Complete Act 3 reading
Guided / Independent
Complete study guide questions for Act 3
One constructed response- Analyze the shifts in behavior of lady macbeth and macbeth. Do you think there is more of a feminine side to lady macbeth than she cares to admit?
Closure
View through Act 3 for reinforcement
Ext Pass
Confidence is a good thing but over-confidence can result in laziness or complacency. Explain.
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Friday, October 3, Act 2 Quiz and Act 3
Objective: By the end of class, students will continue to read and analyze Macbeth
with a focus on developing writing
and literacy skills in order to prepare for keystones and make real life
connections
DO NOW
Macbeth Act 2 Quiz
Direct Instruction
read Act 3 scenes 1-3
Guided / Independent
Study Guide questions in groups of 2-4
Closure
View film thru act scene 3
Exit Pass
Temptation of power cannot be ignored. Macbeth could not ignore it. Could you? Explain with details.
DO NOW
Macbeth Act 2 Quiz
Direct Instruction
read Act 3 scenes 1-3
Guided / Independent
Study Guide questions in groups of 2-4
Closure
View film thru act scene 3
Exit Pass
Temptation of power cannot be ignored. Macbeth could not ignore it. Could you? Explain with details.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Thursday, October 2 - Mood / Foreshadowing in Macbeth
Objective: By the end of class, students will continue to read and analyze Macbeth for theme and literary devices with a focus on developing writing and literacy skills in order to
prepare for keystones and make real life connections.
DO NOW
Write in notebooks:
Mood is a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions.
Foreshadowing is a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
Direct Instruction
practice multiple choice
MOOD and FORESHADOWING
Review the list of MOOD words and put a mark next to the ones to which you do not know the meanings.
Act 1 opens with the witches and the mood is:
1.
2.
3.
Then through act 2 scene 2 that ends with Duncan's murder - the mood continues to be:
1.
2.
3.
View the pictures and write down two words for each that describe the MOOD each creates.click here
Guided / Independent
Constructed Responses (5-7 sentences each)
1. Analyze how and why Shakespeare changes the MOOD in ACT 2 scene 3 (pages 63 and 65)? Provide a detailed explanation. Use three words from the "MOOD" word page in your explanation.
2. Macbeth's greedy nature results in the murder of Duncan. Immediately he experiences GUILT. Use the text to identify three occasions in ACT 2 that reveal Macbeth's guilt.
3. Identify two examples of foreshadowing in Act 2. What kind of mood does each of your examples create? Use three words from the "MOOD" word page in your explanation.
Closure
Review answers and make predictions
Exit Pass
If you do something wrong and you know it, do you feel guilty?How does the felling of "GUILT" affect your actions or does it? Provide an example.
DO NOW
Write in notebooks:
Mood is a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions.
Foreshadowing is a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
practice multiple choice
MOOD and FORESHADOWING
Review the list of MOOD words and put a mark next to the ones to which you do not know the meanings.
Act 1 opens with the witches and the mood is:
1.
2.
3.
Then through act 2 scene 2 that ends with Duncan's murder - the mood continues to be:
1.
2.
3.
View the pictures and write down two words for each that describe the MOOD each creates.click here
Constructed Responses (5-7 sentences each)
1. Analyze how and why Shakespeare changes the MOOD in ACT 2 scene 3 (pages 63 and 65)? Provide a detailed explanation. Use three words from the "MOOD" word page in your explanation.
2. Macbeth's greedy nature results in the murder of Duncan. Immediately he experiences GUILT. Use the text to identify three occasions in ACT 2 that reveal Macbeth's guilt.
3. Identify two examples of foreshadowing in Act 2. What kind of mood does each of your examples create? Use three words from the "MOOD" word page in your explanation.
Closure
Review answers and make predictions
Exit Pass
If you do something wrong and you know it, do you feel guilty?How does the felling of "GUILT" affect your actions or does it? Provide an example.
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