1. Invitation to Write: Respond to the following quote: “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string” from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance.” What does this quote really mean? Should we all listen to our own internal sense of what is right or wrong, or what is true or untrue?
Close Reader: pg. 44 and 45
Your figurative language project is due tomorrow.
Formative grade on Friday, Invitations to Write

2. Agenda
Invitation to Write. Respond to the following quote: “What’s fair is foul, and foul is fair.” If you were to explain this quote to a six year old, how would you explain it?
Notes on Macbeth.
Start to read Macbeth.
Reminders: Sonnet due tonight at 11:59 pm. Invitation to Write check on Friday.

3. What do you know about The Bard?
How long ago did he write his plays?
How many plays did he write?
What is the major controversy regarding the Shakespeare and his authorship?
Who performed in Shakespeare’s plays in the 1600’s?
What famous phrases originated from Shakespeare?
About 400 years ago.
37.
Some believe that Shakespeare was four different people.
Men. Effeminate men played the women.

5. drama • play; performance
soliloquy • a solo speech
comic relief • a section that relieves tension
for a short time

6. By William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of
Macbeth
By William Shakespeare

7. “Out, damned spot! Out, I say!”
“Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.”
“What’s fair is foul, and foul is fair.”
“What’s done is done.”
“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!”
"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under 't."
"When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won"

8. The Scottish Play…
It is believed to be bad luck to speak the word “Macbeth” in a theatre. Thus, it’s often referred to as “The Scottish Play” or “The Bard’s Play.”
Numerous legends surrounding the running of Macbeth – there’s an entire Wikipedia page dedicated to the bad luck associated with the play.

9. Plot Overview
The play is set in Scotland. Basically, three strange figures come along and tell Macbeth he will be king. Macbeth tells his wife, and his wife encourages him to kill the king in order to fulfill the prophecy. Things become difficult when Banquo also wants to fulfill his part of the prophecy. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are overcome with guilt, and ultimately…

10. The Three Witches Prophesize that Macbeth will be king
Set the ominous tone of the play

11. Macbeth
King Duncan’s most courageous general
Ambition to become king corrupts him causing him to murder his cousin, Duncan
Arguably, a
tragic hero.

12. Malcolm & Donalbain
Sons of the King
Malcolm is the eldest son

13. King Duncan of Scotland
Murdered by cousin Macbeth
Honest and good

14. Banquo General and Macbeth’s best friend
Suspects Macbeth in Duncan’s murder
He is the character foil to Macbeth.

15. Lady Macbeth As ambitious as her husband
A dark force behind his evil deeds

16. Macduff Scottish general, suspects Macbeth of murdering the king
Macbeth has his family murdered
Swears vengeance
Grr.

17. After reading Act I… Summarize each scene in 1-2 sentences.
Give a creative title to each scene.

18. After read Act I, answer the following questions in your notebook.
How does Macbeth act on the battleground?
What could the witches represent?
How do you know from the text that Lady Macbeth has doubts about her husband’s ability to be treacherous?
How does Macbeth interact with Lady Macbeth?

19. After reading Act II, answer the following questions:
How do Macbeth and Lady Macbeth collaborate to murder Duncan?
What text shows that Lady Macbeth’s character flaws are as deep as Macbeth’s?
After the horror of Act I Scene 2, why does Shakespeare have the porter talk about drinking and carousing?

20. Act III
Why does Macbeth have Banquo killed? What in the text shows how Lady Macbeth covers up Macbeth’s horror when he sees Banquo’s ghost?
Why does Shakespeare let Fleance escape?

21. Act IV
ACT IV, Scenes 1–4 • The cauldron scene shows the witches brewing up a wicked charm for Macbeth. What three apparitions do they show him?
Why is Scene 2 horrific?

22. Act V
What evidence from the text shows that Lady Macbeth is going insane?
Which lines reveal how Macbeth’s ambition leads him to misapply the witch’s riddle?

23. Agenda Invitation to Write: Free write.
Allusion worksheet. Refer to seabreezebradley.weebly.com for a copy of it.
Continue reading Macbeth.
Summarize and creatively title each scene in Act I.