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.
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Yet who would have thought the old man
to have had so much blood in him.
What, will these hands ne'er be clean?
What's
done cannot be undone.
There's no art
To find the mind's construction in the face
He was a gentleman on whom I built
An absolute trust.
Assign and give time to complete:
Macbeth Journal # 1
Don't judge a book by its cover.
What does this mean? Do you agree with the assumption? Give me some examples from your personal life and experiences (can be from TV, books, movies, etc.).
Argument Paper Due Dates
