Warm -up List a couple of your favorite movies. What do you like about them? (i.e., plot development, characterization, tone, mood, atmosphere, dialogue, conflicts, etc.). Email the link of your Animoto video to pollarddropbox@hotmail.com. Please list your group members and number in the subject line.

? Standards Essential Question ELACC11-12RL3: Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama … ELACC11-12RL4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful… ELACC11-12RL10: …read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems… How do the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate certain elements of a drama make an impact? ?

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A few facts… Macbeth was a real person. In Shakespeare’s time, Macbeth was a thriller. More about the psychological truth than in historical fact. Shakespeare’s plays were affected by the rulers of the time, called a command performance. Story lines Genres Subjects

“If King James, the patron of Shakespeare’s company, ever saw the play, it must have pleased him. Since he had recently survived the Gunpowder Plot, James was especially interested in attacks on kings; he always defended the idea that he ruled by divine right.” King James was a Scot before ruling England after the death of Queen Elizabeth I.

Dramatic Terminology

Types of Plays History Plays Comedies Tragedies (Macbeth) A play representing events drawn wholly or partly from recorded history. Comedies Plays with a happy ending, usually involving marriages between the unmarried characters, and a tone and style that is more light-hearted. Tragedies (Macbeth) The protagonist must be an admirable but flawed character. They are capable of good and evil. Has an unhappy ending. Romances aka tragi-comedy Both tragic and comic characteristics.

Macbeth 2.1. 22-23 Segments Macbeth II. i. 22-23 Play the stage representation of an action or story; a dramatic composition Act one of the principal divisions of a theatrical work; modern plays are typically divided into one or two acts; Shakespeare uses 5 acts Scene a division of a play or of an act of a play, usually representing what passes between certain of  the actors in one place Line The dialogue spoken by an actor; could be associated with a sentence

Stage Directions Italics Not spoken Setting Tells what HAS to be included in the setting to make the scene make sense Stage directions Physical directions Characterization Specific character instructions (emotional) Upstage The back of the stage Downstage The front of the stage Stage right/left The side of the stage; from point of view of actor Center stage The middle of the stage Exit That person leaves the stage Exeunt Everyone on stage exits

The Theatre House Where the audience sits Wings Offstage to the left and right Proscenium arch The “frame” around the stage/acting area Apron The area in front of the proscenium arch Orchestra pit Area for the orchestra, usually in a large hole in front of the stage Main curtain The large heavy curtain in the front of the stage

Proscenium Arch stage

The Globe Theatre

Act I, Scene 1 http://thisismacbeth.com/movie/clips/clip-theatre-act1-scene1.shtml

Exit Slip What are the connotations of witches in literature? OR What are three things you learned about Shakespeare from other groups? Homework Finish reading Act I, Scenes 2 and 3. Fill in Summary Chart for those scenes.