“We Do” Extension Questions
You will be given five minutes to work in groups and answer the following lecture questions/complete the following lecture task. I will walk around and look at your answers before we start the work period:
10.26.2015: After reading the second paragraph of the article “Introduction to Macbeth” on page 402 will answer the question “How do the author’s words reflect or respond to the original setting, occasion, or audience?” in your groups.
10.28.2015: Students will participate in a “we do” underlining and labeling examples of personification. Students will work in pairs to answer the following questions:
How does this passage sound when you say it out loud? Do you hear a rhythm? Are the words soft and musical or harsh and discordant? What is the mood of this speech? Does imagery and the personification contribute to the mood?
Work Rotation Questions
Each week, you will required to complete either a dialectical journal or a chapter summary based on that week's readings. To complete your ACT Summaries you must summarize each scene in an act in two or three sentences. You must then answer the 5 w's (Who, What, When, Where, Why... and How) for the entire Act once the Act is finished. Act summaries must be written in proper literary paragraph format. All power shifts must be addressed or mentioned in the act summaries. On the last day of the unit, a compilation of all journals and act summaries must be handed in to the teacher for final marking. (RL.1.2)These must be done in addition to your classwork.
10.26.2015 Using pages 402-403 for “Introduction to the Tragedy of Macbeth” answer the following questions.
1. What is the connotative meaning of the phrase “ambitious nature” as it is used in the text?
a. kind and humble
b. calm and content
c. hot-headed and selfish
d. determined and ruthless
2. Read the following sentence from the text: “In playing out these real feelings and desires, Shakespeare’s Macbeth transcends the historical Macbeth and gives us a portrait and a play for all times.”
Part A:
How does the author develop the meaning of the phrase “a play for all times” over the course of the text?
Part B:
What is the meaning of the phrase as it is used in the text?
3. Exit Slip Question
10.28.2015 Using Act One Scenes 1-2 complete the following questions/tasks. The Tragedy of Macbeth begins on page 406.
1. Part A:
What is the connotative meaning of the phrase “valor’s minion”?
Part B:
How does the author develop the meaning of the phrase over the course of the text?
For brave Macbeth—well he deserves that name—
Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like valor’s minion carved out his passage
Till he faced the slave;
Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,
Till he unseamed him from the nave to th' chops,
And fixed his head upon our battlements.
2. Read the below passage and answer the following question:
Part A:
How does the use of figurative language affect the tone of the passage?
Part B:
Select an example of figurative language that supports your answer in Part A.
ROSS
From Fife, great king,
Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky
And fan our people cold.
Norway himself, with terrible numbers,
Assisted by that most disloyal traitor,
The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict,
Till that Bellona’s bridegroom, lapped in proof,
Confronted him with self-comparisons,
Point against point, rebellious arm 'gainst arm,
Curbing his lavish spirit; and to conclude,
The victory fell on us.
ROSS
Great king, I’ve come from Fife, where the
Norwegian flag flies, mocking our country and
frightening our people. Leading an enormous
army and assisted by that disloyal traitor, the
thane of Cawdor, the king of Norway began a
bloody battle. But outfitted in his battle-weathered
armor, Macbeth met the Norwegian attacks shot
for shot, as if he were the goddess of war’s
husband. Finally he broke the enemy’s spirit, and
we were victorious.
DUNCAN
Great happiness!
3. Continue Reading Act One, Scene Two and complete your Act Summary for Scenes One and Two.
4. Exit Slip Question
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Instructor, N. Pachecker