1. Topic-
Macbeth
 
2. Content-
Macbeth Act IV-V
Vocabulary: Act IV - harp, potent, impress, pernicious, firstling, desolate, intemperance, avarices, scruples
Act V - perturbation, charge, mortify, gentry, distempered, upbraid, skirr, raze, pristine, treatise
 
3. Goals: Aims/Outcomes-
Students will:
1. Recall, organize, and share their relevant knowledge and experience to begin understanding, appreciating, and interpreting the play Macbeth.
2. Comprehend plot, motives of characters.
3. Develop an understanding of motifs and how they contribute to a particular theme.
4. appreciate how figurative language is used by Shakespeare to create a timeless literary form.
 
4. Objectives-
1. Read Shakespeare's Macbeth
2. Understand how motifs can contribute to a particular theme.
3. Analyze and break down the three types of irony using the play Macbeth, finding examples of irony in the reading.
 
5. Materials and Aids-
1. No Fear Shakespeare's Macbeth
2. 2010 PBS Production of Macbeth
3. No Fear Shakespeare's Macbeth is online.
 
6. Procedures/Methods-

A. Introduction-

1. English Theater Background
2. Shakespeare Background
3. Macbeth notes, themes, motifs, figurative language
 

B. Development-

1. Stopping and pointing out key areas of importance during reading.
2. Discussing figurative language, allusions, motifs, themes, etc.
 

C. Practice-

1. Act out the play in class using different students each day.
2. Quiz after each act
 

D. Independent Practice-

1. Reader Writer Notebook entries
2. Worksheets
 

E. Accommodations (Differentiated Instruction)-

1. No Fear Shakespeare's Macbeth is online

2. Modified Tests
3. Modified Writing Assignments
 

F. Checking for understanding-

1. Quizzes
2. Test
 

G. Closure-

1. Macbeth Writing Assignment
2. Macbeth Test
 
7. Evaluation-
1. Students seem to be enjoying the play.
2. We are reading the modern version of the play from No Fear Shakespeare. The viewing of the PBS Macbeth in the Shakesperian language is great reinforcement.
 

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