Wed. April 10

BR:

ØWrite about whether or not you have ever gotten away with doing something wrong. Did you feel guilty about it? Would you rather have been caught? 

Elaborate on your response by thinking about how you felt, what you would do if you were in that situation again and whether or not you had any outside influences other than their own intuition. 

Agenda:

After the BR, copy the following literary terms down and their definitions. 

1. Equivocation – an expression or statement that is vague and deliberately misleading
2. Antithesis – the use of words or phrases that contrast with each other to create a balanced effect
3. Paradox – a statement, proposition, or situation that seems to be absurd or contradictory, but in fact is or may be true
4. Soliloquy – the act of speaking alone, often used as a theatrical device that allows a character’s thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
5. Incantation – ritual chanting or use of “magic words”
6. Allusion – a suggested link in the text to something outside of the text, usually a historical person, historical event, or literary figure
7. Dramatis Personae – list of characters in a play
8. Tragic Flaw – a character flaw that causes the downfall of the protagonist in a tragedy
9. Aside – a remark made by an actor, usually to the audience, that the other characters on stage supposedly cannot hear
10. Comic Relief - a comic scene or passage inserted into a serious work, used to provide relief from tension, or the further heightening of tension
11. Tragedy - a serious play with a tragic theme, often involves a heroic struggle and the downfall of a major character
12. Bank Verse – un-rhymed poetry that has a regular rhythm and line length (especially iambic pentameter
13. Iambic Pentameter – the most common rhythm in English poetry, has five iambs (one unstressed syllable followed by astressed syllable) in each line (ten syllables following the da DUM pattern)
14. Monologue – a long speech spoken by a character in the presence of others

• Students will create a character chart for an active reading guide.Open to Macbeth, the play, in your textbook. Locate characters in the text. Create a chart including their name, their role, quote, character at beginning of play, character at end of play.
•  Take a tour- Click the link and tour the Globe Theater where Macbeth was performed. http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/converse/movies/sound_globe.swf
• A review of the history of Shakespeare and Macbeth.
• Students will begin reading Act I of Mabeth as a class.