Journal Entry #1 Due Monday

To help your Shakespearian tone for your journal, check out wikihow: Speak like Shakespeare!

Today you selected a character from Macbeth so you can write a 1st person perspective from that character's point of view. 

You must have two quotes - they can be by your character, about your character, or heard (via the grapevine) by your character.

Blend/Frame the quotes.

Don't start a paragraph with a quote or end a paragraph with a quote.

If you have questions on when to use a block quote...and when not to use a block quote.
(See the links above for helpful info). 

Be sure to cite them:  "quote!"(1.5.26-27)  

                            The 1 (the first number) is for the Act, the 5 represents the Scene, and lines 26-27.

MLA Format

Length: 1.3 page minimum to 2 pages maximum.

If you didn't watch the PBS film, please try again. 

Also, you may enjoy watching these films if you have time this weekend:

Scotland, PA

A creative modern take on MACBETH: Scotland, Pa. (2001) - http://t.co/fTxcClMnJS Priceless performance by Christopher Walken as MacDuff
— Mr. O'Brien (@kobenglish14) January 31, 2014

And this is on NETFLIX:

Homework for Friday...

Good work today on your test!

For homework: 

1. Watch the first 32 minutes of the play (Act I):

2. Have your book open as you watch the play. 
Feel free to pause it.

3. ANNOTATE in YOUR BOOK: FIND 3 interesting moments within scenes - be specific - in terms of acting, directing, cinematography, or simply what is different between the play and the movie? Are any lines cut? 
Consider the choices that were made in translating the play to film. 

Tomorrow (Friday) we will meet in Computer lab 201. 
You will select a character to write a 1st person Journal (like Cuckoo's Nest) about Act I.  You will have to select at least two quotes to meditate upon in writing.  

We will also discuss differences between the play and the film. 



FYI - I recommend clicking the Macbeth link above - and NOT bouncing back and forth to other windows or websites because the video might jam; therefore, close other window, tabs, apps, and please put your phone away :) Focus and enjoy the film!

Growth vs. Fixed Mindset

When it comes to Shakespeare, students embrace the challenge or avoid challenges...

Which mindset do you have?

Click to read a great article:

Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives

by Maria Popova

How to fine-tune the internal monologue that scores every aspect of our lives, from leadership to love. 

It concludes:

In the fixed mindset, that process is scored by an internal monologue of constant judging and evaluation, using every piece of information as evidence either for or against such assessments as whether you’re a good person, whether your partner is selfish, or whether you are better than the person next to you. In a growth mindset, on the other hand, the internal monologue is not one of judgment but one of voracious appetite for learning, constantly seeking out the kind of input that you can metabolize into learning and constructive action.

What is a Soliloquy?

From Google:

so·lil·o·quy

səˈliləkwē/

noun

noun: soliloquy; plural noun: soliloquies

1. 1.

   an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, esp. by a character in a play.

   synonyms:

   monologue, speech, address, lecture, oration, sermon, homily, aside More

   • a part of a play involving a soliloquy.

     
     

Origin

Middle English: from late Latin soliloquium, from Latin solus ‘alone’ + loqui ‘speak.’

FYI -

The Chronology of Shakespeare's Plays

First Performed	Plays	First Printed
1590-91	Henry VI, Part II	1594?
1590-91	Henry VI, Part III	1594?
1591-92	Henry VI, Part I	1623
1592-93	Richard III	1597
1592-93	Comedy of Errors	1623
1593-94	Titus Andronicus	1594
1593-94	Taming of the Shrew	1623
1594-95	Two Gentlemen of Verona	1623
1594-95	Love's Labour's Lost	1598?
1594-95	Romeo and Juliet	1597
1595-96	Richard II	1597
1595-96	A Midsummer Night's Dream	1600
1596-97	King John	1623
1596-97	The Merchant of Venice	1600
1597-98	Henry IV, Part I	1598
1597-98	Henry IV, Part II	1600
1598-99	Much Ado About Nothing	1600
1598-99	Henry V	1600
1599-1600	Julius Caesar	1623
1599-1600	As You Like It	1623
1599-1600	Twelfth Night	1623
1600-01	Hamlet	1603
1600-01	The Merry Wives of Windsor	1602
1601-02	Troilus and Cressida	1609
1602-03	All's Well That Ends Well	1623
1604-05	Measure for Measure	1623
1604-05	Othello	1622
1605-06	King Lear	1608
1605-06	Macbeth	1623
1606-07	Antony and Cleopatra	1623
1607-08	Coriolanus	1623
1607-08	Timon of Athens	1623
1608-09	Pericles	1609
1609-10	Cymbeline	1623
1610-11	The Winter's Tale	1623
1611-12	The Tempest	1623
1612-13	Henry VIII	1623
1612-13	The Two Noble Kinsmen*	1634

TEST THURSDAY (no vocab)

Homework:

 Study: Macbeth Vocab ACT I 



Test Thursday: ACT I plus Vocab

A. Matching Vocab - Macbeth and Wordly Wise  We will test vocab next week!
B. Quote ID - see previous posts!
C. Short Answer
D. Passage analysis

For Wednesday (Drop Tuesday)

Alexandre-Marie Colin. The Three Witches from "Macbeth," 1827.

Homework:

1. Short Journal on Prophesy (see handout)

2. READ: ACT I, Scenes 6 & 7

3. Review: Macbeth ACT I for TEST THURSDAY

4. Study: Vocab Lesson 7 in Wordly Wise (I recommend using your workbook, but it is not required.)

5. Study: Macbeth Vocab ACT I 

Test Thursday: ACT I plus Vocab

A. Matching Vocab - Macbeth and Wordly Wise
B. Quote ID
C. Short Answer
D. Passage analysis

Very Important that you study and understand the play!

READ! And take recommendations to heart, such as listening and watching the play at home.

See previous posts!


Review: Who's line is it?

Note: You can open drop down menu for "Choose a Study Mode"
 

For Monday...

Read Macbeth Act I through scene 5.

Link to Macbeth Online via MIT
Listen to Free Audiobook of Macbeth via LibriVox

Vocabulary:

From MACBETH:



From Wordly Wise Lesson 7:

(Remember there's a Quizlet Smartphone App)


Quote ID: Match Speaker to Quote

WELCOME BACK!

1. Journal - Share!

2. Intro to Macbeth:





Full Film: 


3. Pass back essays etc.

And a few words from Harvard about Ending The Essay: Conclusions


4. HWK:

A. Get Macbeth!

Must have your own book so you can annotate.

B. Read Act I Scenes 1 and 2.