1. William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth
“It will have blood they say. Blood will have blood…”

2. Quiz: character word bank
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Murderer
Banquo
Lady Macduff
Malcolm
Apparition #1
Apparition #2
Apparition #3
Macduff

3. Quiz on Wednesday:
Will four quotations from act one and three from act two.
Will include three short answer questions from opening lecture notes/terminology and play’s plot details.
Thirty points.

4. Tomorrow’s acts one/two quiz:
Ten quotations from acts one and two
Identify speaker.
Provide context (why the lines are spoken regarding the overall themes of the play).
Paraphrase what the lines actually mean.
REVIEW THE CHARACTERS, SCENES AND IMPORTANT THEMES OF THE PLAY!

5. Tuesday: Unit test: 75 multiple choice/matching questions,
one short answer
Wednesday: Library to compose Macbeth response assignment
Thursday: Library to compose Macbeth response assignment
Friday: Scrabble tournament with prizes!

6. Act five The doctor says:
“Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds
Do breed unnatural troubles; infected minds
To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.”

7. Act five The doctor says:
“More needs she the divine than the physician…Look after her.
Remove from her the means of all annoyance
And still keep eyes upon her.”

8. Act five Angus (thane who defects) says: “Now does he feel
His secret murders sticking on his hands.
Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in love.
Now does his title
Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.”

9. Act five Macbeth says: “I have almost forgot the taste of fears.
The time has been my sense would have cooled To hear a night-shriek…
I have supped full with horrors.
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,
Cannot one start me.”

10. Act five Macbeth says: “She should have died hereafter
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tommorow
Creeps in this petty pace from dayd to day...
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle.”

11. Act five Macbeth says: “Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”

12. Act five
Macbeth says:
“I bear a charmed life, which must not yield to one of woman born.”
Macduff responds:
“Despair thy charm,
And let the angel whom thou still hast served
Tell thee Macduff was from his mother’s womb
Untimely ripped.”

13. Ways to study: Correct all previous quizzes. Complete the crossword.
Review all notes in text that reveal significant lines.
Do a “plot outline” review that lists a brief summary of each scene for all five acts.

14. Act one: scene outline
Scene one: Witches meet on heath; plan to meet with Macbeth later
Scene two: King hears news of Macbeth’s heroism in winning war; Macbeth will be promoted
Scene three: B and MB meet with witches, receive prophecies, MB promoted
Scene four: Malcolm is named Prince of Cumberland; Macbeth reacts in rage

15. REMINDER:
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale due on the following dates:
Part one (to page 147) due 1/10
Part two (to page 311) due 1/17

16. Today’s agenda: Submit project in grade box.
Reread/add to supplemental short answer response from yesterday’s unit test and ask Mrs. Peters for clarification on any test questions.
Take out your text, seminar questions and notebook to participate in today’s seminar discussion. You should take notes, and you may use these for tomorrow’s class essay.
Reminders: The Handmaid’s Tale (to page 147) due Tuesday!

17. Today’s agenda:
Meet with group members to review progress on project and to share act/scene summaries.
Individually compose your own questions for each of the five Socratic Seminar inquiry categories. (10 points)
For homework, review and plan for Friday’s potential Macbeth essay test topics.
Reminder: Unit test (part one) tomorrow!

18. After you have completed your crossword, do the following:
For each of the five acts, BRIEFLY summarize the character/plot of each scene. Do this in order, and skip the scenes that we did not read.
Why? One full page of the test includes placing the plot of the play in order of events.

19. Get in project groups to work on your three components
Use classroom laptops for writing and finding images.
See closet door for examples of poems.
See bulletin board and gray desk for examples of playbills/images.
Use your time today working on the project---NOT other classwork.
Mrs. Peters will help if you have questions.

20. PSSA exam dates Tuesday/Wednesday, March 15/16:
- No school for seniors
Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday,
March 29/30/31:
- Two-hour delay for seniors
Tuesday/ Wednesday, April 5/6:

21. For today’s test: Skip #21.
Write the answers to #51-75 on the lined portion of your answer sheet.
After you finish your test, begin preparing for tomorrow’s in-class essay.
Remember that all three components of your Macbeth project are due tomorrow. Please print all items before you report to class.

22. Today’s agenda:
Get into your project groups and compile (with paper clip) your project in the following order: rubric, writing component, poem, playbill. Write last names only on rubric.
Use the remainder of the period to compose your response to ONE of the writing prompts. Documented citations from the play are not needed. After you finish, submit your Macbeth book.
Reminder: The Handmaid’s Tale (to page 147) due Tuesday!

23. ACT TWO “Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers.
The sleeping and the dead
Are but as pictures.”

24. ACT ONE, SCENE ONE
When the hurly-burly’s done, When the battle’s lost and won. That will be ere the set of sun.

25. Fair is foul, and foul is fair…
ACT ONE, SCENE ONE
Fair is foul, and foul is fair…

26. ACT ONE, SCENE TWO
King Duncan states: “O Valiant cousin, worthy gentleman!”. Who does he reference in this statement, and why?

27. ACT ONE, SCENE TWO
There are two traitors that Macbeth has captured in the final stages of the Scottish/Norwegian war. One is Macdonwald, and the other is whom? “Go pronounce his present death, And with his former title greet Macbeth. What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.”

28. ACT TWO “So I lose none/in seeking to augment it, but still keep
My bosom franchised and
Allegiance clear,/I shall be
Counseled.”

29. ACT TWO
Hark! I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done't.

30. ACT TWO
My hands are of your colour; but I shame To wear a heart so white.

31. ACT TWO
No, cousin, I'll to Fife.

32. Pair Activity
In acts one through three, locate three examples of antitheses, similes and metaphors; then explicate each of your three examples.

33. Cultural References
William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, John Steinbeck’s The Moon is Down and Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes each allude to lines in Macbeth.
“The Weird Sisters” is a popular wizarding band in the Harry Potter series.
The Sundance film Scotland, PA retells Macbeth as a dark comedy with “Duncan’s” as a burger joint and Macbeth as a short order cook with evil designs.
Japanese film legend Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood retells Macbeth as a samurai story set in feudal Japan.

34. The Tragedy of Macbeth Otherwise known as “The Scottish Play”
Written and performed as a tribute to Elizabeth I’s successor, James I
Macbeth played on the political and personal insecuritites of King James, including regicide

35. Story Behind the Writing of the Play
1603: King James I officially declares Shakespeare’s acting company The King’s Men; Macbeth was composed as a tribute to the king
Play is set in Scotland
Character of Banquo, who was from the same family as James, is portrayed favorably

36. Elizabethan View of the Universe The Great Chain of Being
"Almighty God created and appointed all things in a most excellent and perfect order."
God
Archangels
Angels
King
Noblemen
Merchants
Peasants
Animals
Plants
Minerals
Elements
Chaos
The Great Chain of Being
[cosmology]

37. HEAVEN HELL (All things good and light) Balcony
(All things dark, evil and “of the ground”)
Trap door
Whenever EVIL strikes the KING, the natural order of the world becomes UNBALANCED.

38. Tragedy
A serious drama that tells of a series of events in the life of a significant person, such events leading to an unhappy catastrophe OR
A drama of the fall of a person from high esteem to low esteem

39. Background to act one
represent EVIL
The REAL Macbeth ruled Scotland from 1040 to 1057.
BLOOD is mentioned in the play more than 100 times. As an IMAGE, it has different meanings during specific times of the play.

40. Setting: Scotland (at the beginning of the play, Scotland is at war with Norway)
Duncan: Present King of Scotland
His two sons:
Malcolm, the Prince of Cumberland
and the younger Donalbain
King Duncan’s cousins are Scottish THANES, or noblemen. Macbeth is the Thane of Glamis, Scotland, but due to his bravery early in the play, he is appointed to be the Thane of Cawdor—a major promotion

41. Name speaker and context, then paraphrase
I’ll drain him dry as hay.
Sleep shall neither night nor day…
Though his bark cannot be lost,
…it shall be tempest tossed.

42. Name speaker and context, then paraphrase
Thou shall beget kings, though thou be none.

43. Name speaker and context, then paraphrase
The Thane of Cawdor lives. Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?

44. Name speaker and context, then paraphrase
…Oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths…only to betray us
In deepest consequence.

45. Name speaker and context, then paraphrase
There’s no art
To find the mind’s construction in the face.
He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust.

46. Name speaker and context, then paraphrase
The Prince of Cumberland!
That is a step on which I must fall down or else overleap,
For in my way it lies.

47. Name speaker and context, then paraphrase
O, never
Shall sun that morrow see!

48. Name speaker and context, then paraphrase
I am settled, and bent up.
Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.

49. Act three review questions
What are the three conditions that Macbeth places upon the murderers for a “successful” second murder?
Macbeth claims that he himself cannot murder Banquo and Fleance. Why not?

50. Delineate the images of childlessness in this passage:
“Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown And put a barren scepter in my grip Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding. If it be so, For Banquo’s issue have I filed my mind; For them the gracious Duncan have I murdered… And mine eternal jewel Given to the common enemy of man To make them kings, the seeds of Banquo kings.”

51. Act three review questions
Macbeth says to his wife,
“We have scorched the snake, not killed it.”
Who is the snake that is scorched, and who is the one that remains?

52. Act three review questions
Macbeth says to his wife:
“O full of ________________ is my mind, dear wife!”
What are these metaphorical scorpions?

53. Act three review questions
Macbeth says:
“I am in ____________
Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning as tedious as go o’er.
Strange things I have in ___________, that will to __________,
Which must be acted ere they may be scanned.”