1. 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.).
the link of your Animoto video to Please list your group members and number in the subject line.

2. ? 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? ?

4. 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

5. “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.

6. Dramatic Terminology

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. Proscenium Arch stage

12. The Globe Theatre

13. Act I, Scene 1

14. 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.