1. Establish the fact that students will be keeping a Macbeth portfolio. I won’t collect a lot of the things they do until the end, so they need to keep it all in a spiral notebook, folder, etc. until I call for it.
2. Divide the class into small groups and give each group a card with a different situation. Give each group 5 minutes to brainstorm a list of scenarios that might result if this situation were to take place.
3. Each group should now take 10-15 minutes to create a short skit based on one of these scenarios. Have each group present its skit for the whole class.
4. Once skits have been presented lead a short discussion of the different choices made by group working with the same scenario. In what ways were the moods of the skits different?
5. Explain that these scenarios anticipate the play that we will begin reading in class the next day.
6. Tossing Lines.
Fair is foul, and foul is fair . . .
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me
Without my stir.
Stars, hide your fires;
Let not light see my black and deep desires.
Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness . . .
Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here . . .
Look like th’ innocent flower,
But be the serpent under ‘t.
If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well
It were done quickly.
7. Journal #1: Has there ever been a time your life when someone told you that something improbable would happen and it did? Did the fact that the event was “predicted” cause you to behave differently than you would have otherwise and make it more likely for the event to occur? Or did the event simply seem to occur without any assistance from you? Recall what happened and include your feelings when you heard the event predicted and when it occurred.
Homework Collected: None
Homework Given:
Macbeth Portfolio – Journal # 1,Persuasive Research Paper: 1st Draft Due: March 10,
Research Portfolio Due: March 17,
2nd Draft Due: March 24,
Final Paper Due: March 31,
Reflection Paper Due: April 14
Handouts given out: None
To Read: None
