1. What do you know about Shakespeare? SLAM
Journal Entry
What do you know about Shakespeare? SLAM

2. William Shakespeare’s “The Scottish Play”
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Introduction

3. Consider
"Which filmmaker's version is the most creative in terms of ______________________?“ Fill in the blank: costumes, setting, casting, props, music, sound effects, and camera work. Pick one aspect, and collect evidence from each version using the graphic organizer from all three versions.

4. Thesis Statement
In (title of work), (director) uses (one aspect) to (define, strengthen, illustrate, etc.) the (evidence one, two and three).

5. Difficulties Reading Shakespeare’s Language
OBSOLETE WORDS
“aroint thee” (be gone)
“runnion” (a gross woman)
“anon” (right away)
“sewer” (a servant who handles food)
“hautboy” (a type of instrument)
WORDS WITH CHANGED MEANINGS
“composition” (peace)
“present” (immediate)
“choppy” (wrinkled)
“addition” (title or rank)
“receipt” (bucket or receptacle)

6. Inverted Sentence Structure
Consider these sentences:
1. The dog bit the boy.
2. The boy bit the dog.
3. Bit the boy did the dog.
4. The boy the dog bit.
What is the SUBJECT of each sentence? (who is doing the biting?)
What is the DIRECT OBJECT of each sentence (who is being bitten?)

7. Rewrite these sentences in a “normal” order
1. Looking? Found someone you have I would say!
2. Help you I can.
3. Mudhole? Slimy? My home this is!
4. No, no. Stay and help you I will find your friend.
5. Yes. Take you to him I will.

8. Inverted Structure in Macbeth
“My noble partner you greet with present grace and great prediction.” – Banquo, (Act I Scene 3 lines 57-58)
Translation: “You greet my noble partner with immediate grace and great prediction.”

9. Macbeth
Act ! Vocabulary – Unit 3

10. Macbeth – Act I Unit 3 Vocabulary
Beguile
Chastise
Cleave
Corporal
Deign
Harbinger
Interim
Metaphysical
Minion
Purveyor
Recompense
Sovereign
Surmise
Thane
Thither
Wanton

11. (v) To influence by trickery
Beguile
To beguile the time, Look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue. Look like th' innocent flower
(v) To influence by trickery
In order to deceive them, you must appear the way they expect you to look. Greet the king with a welcoming expression in your eyes, your hands, and your words. You should look like an innocent flower

12. Chastise Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear
(v) To criticize severely
Chastise
Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear
And chastise with the valor of my tongue. All that impedes thee from the golden round
Hurry home so I can persuade you and talk you out of whatever’s keeping you from going after the crown.

13. Cleave New honors come upon him,
(v) To adhere or cling to
Cleave
New honors come upon him,
Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mold
But with the aid of use.
They’re like new clothes: they don’t fit until you break them in over time.

14. I am settled, and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.
(adj) Something of the body; physical
Corporal
I am settled, and bend up
Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.
Now I’m decided, and I will exert every muscle in my body to commit this crime.

15. (v) To condescend to accept
Deign
That now
Sweno, the Norways' king, craves composition. Nor would we deign him burial of his men
So now Sweno, the Norwegian king, wants a treaty. We told him we wouldn’t even let him bury his men

16. (n) A person who goes ahead to make known the approach of another
Harbinger
I’ll be myself the harbinger and make joyful. The hearing of my wife with your approach.
I will go ahead and bring my wife the good news that you are coming

17. (n) An intervening time
Interim
Think upon what hath chanced, and, at more time, The interim having weighed it, let us speak
Our free hearts each to other.
Think about what happened today, and when we’ve both had time to consider things, let’s talk.

18. Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seemTo have thee crowned withal
(adj) Imaginary or fanciful
Metaphysical
Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seemTo have thee crowned withal
After all, fate and witchcraft both seem to want you to be king.

19. (n) A servant of a powerful person
Minion
Like valor’s minion carved out his passage Till he faced the slave; Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,
Macbeth, laughing at Luck, chopped his way through to Macdonwald, who didn’t even have time to say good-bye or shake hands

20. (n) A person who supplies or provides
Purveyor
We coursed him at the heels and had a purpose To be his purveyor; but he rides well,
We followed closely after him. I hoped to arrive here before him, but he rides swiftly.

21. Recompense Thou art so far before
(v) To repay
Recompense
Thou art so far before
That swiftest wing of recompense is slow To overtake thee.
You have done so much for me so fast that it has been impossible to reward you properly.

22. (n) A king or queen; (adj) possessing supreme or ultimate power.
Sovereign
This night’s great business into my dispatch, Which shall to all our nights and days to come Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.
You have done so much for me so fast that it has been impossible to reward you properly.

23. That function is smothered in surmise,And nothing is but what is not.
(n) A thought that something is possible
Surmise
That function is smothered in surmise,And nothing is but what is not.
My ability to act is stifled by my thoughts and speculations, and the only things that matter to me are things that don’t really exist.

24. Whence cam’st thou, worthy thane?
(n) A person who holds lands of the king
Thane
Whence cam’st thou, worthy thane?
Where have you come from, worthy thane?

25. In a sieve I’ll thither sail
(adv) Toward that place or point
Thither
In a sieve I’ll thither sail
I’ll sail there in a kitchen strainer

26. Wanton Desperate My plenteous joys,
(adj) immoral, unchaste, or undisciplined
Desperate
Wanton
My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
My joy is so overwhelming it brings tears to my eyes.