May 17, 2012

Please take out your:

Notebooks, your Macbeth books and a WRITING UTENSIL

Take everything else off of

your desks!

Class Objectives

Act I Vocab! (Final Review before tomorrow’s test!)

Answer Act I Scene vi-vii Reading Questions

Start reading Act II

Students will be able to …

Language Objectives

Define and identify part of speech for Act I vocab

Start Act II!

Students will be able to …

Critically analyze I.vi-vii of Macbeth

WORD PUZZLE!WORD PUZZLE!

•Answer: Get a Leg Up

GEL

Get a

Tomorrow: QUIZ!The quiz will be on all of Act I and the vocab (pictures will be

allowed!)

New Vocab will be given out

next Monday!

Part of Speech:

Devoid of inhabitants or visitors

Adjective

Definition:

The desolate city was the perfect setting for a horror movie.

Desolate

Part of Speech:

A ceremonial drinking cup

Noun

Definition:

The chalice was used to drink from during the ceremony.

Chalice

Part of Speech:

To divide as if by cutting

Verb

Definition:

I cleaved the bread before baking and it resulted in a beautiful split top.

Cleave

Part of Speech:

To inflict punishment

Verb

Definition:

She chastised me by yelling at me and grounded me for three months.

Chastise

Part of Speech:

A messenger

Noun

Definition:

The bike courier raced around town trying to deliver all of his packages.

Courier

Part of Speech:

To regard with extreme hate; Repugnance

Verb

Definition:

Most cats abhor getting wet.

Abhor

Part of Speech:

To lead by deception

Verb

Definition:

The wolf beguiled the sheep by lulling them into a sense of calm before attacking them.

Beguile

Part of Speech:

A servile, dependent or underling

Noun

Definition:

The minions did their master’s bidding.

Minion

Part of Speech:

Of or relating to the body

Adjective

Definition:

The corporal drawing was detailed and explicit.

Corporal

Part of Speech:

Something that foreshadows what’s to come

Noun

Definition:

The clouds were a harbinger of the things to come.

Harbinger

Part of Speech:

Carried away with emotion; wholly absorbed

Adjective

Definition:

Jay-Z was rapt during Beyonce’s performance.

Rapt

Title page 98 of your notebook:

1. How does King Duncan feel about Macbeth’s castle when he arrives?

2. Scene 6 ends with Duncan saying the following to Lady Macbeth: Give me your hand. Conduct me to mine host: we love him highly, And shall continue our graces towards him. By your leave, hostess.

2a. What does this reveal about how Duncan feels about Macbeth?

2b. What does this reveal about Macbeth, knowing that he is entertaining thoughts of murder towards Duncan?

3. How does Lady Macbeth plan to murder Duncan at the end of the scene?

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well

It were done quickly: if th' assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success;

• What is Macbeth saying about the murder of

Duncan?

But in these cases We still have judgment here, that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor.This even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.

• What do you think Macbeth means when he speaks of ‘bloody instructions’ (remember his profession)?

He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.

• What are the reasons Macbeth gives for feeling loyalty towards Duncan in this passage?

Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off;  • Highlight any words in this passage that have a positive meaning. • What do these words suggest about the character of Duncan?

I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself

And falls on the other

• What does Macbeth suggest might be the end result of ambition here?