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Act Two Analysis and Review
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Extra Credit Opportunity #1:
Shakespeare's beautiful figurative language lends itself to incredible visual imaginings. Take your favorite scene (or any scene with figurative language) from Macbeth and create a visual interpretation of the text.
Requirements:
Art must be original.
Any medium of visual art will be accepted (including but not limited to: collage, painting, drawing, sculpture, mosaic, photography). The quotation that inspired the art must appear somewhere on the piece.
The artist(s) name(s) must appear somewhere on the piece (the back is fine).
Due: On or before March 11, 2016
Point value: 2 points in Writing
Double that if you are selected (and accept) to present your piece at Open House.
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Extra Credit Opportunity #2:
Want to take that memorized soliloquy to the next level? Perform at Open House to earn extra credit! The format of Open House is slightly different that in the past. Our room, B­22 will be hosting several 10th grade English classes, all showcasing what they have been doing all year. As part of this, I will be asking students to volunteer to perform their recitations for our visitors.
Requirements:
Tell Ms. Keigher of your intention to perform.
Attend Open House on March 24th (6:30­8:00pm).
Perform a memorized section of text (at least 10 lines in length) and speak briefly about what the text means to you (oral analysis).
Point Value:
Performance and analysis of Act V, scene v: 2 points in Writing
Performance and analysis of a different (approved) scene: 4 points in Writing
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Banquo and Macbeth reflect on the prophesies
What is the purpose behind this conversation? What does it reveal about each character?
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The Dagger Scene
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation
Proceeding from the heat­oppresséd brain?
I see thee yet, in form As palpable as that which now I draw. [He draws his dagger.]
Thou marshal’st me the way that I was going,
And such an instrument I was to use.
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The Murder and Aftermath
My hands are of your color, but I shame
To wear a heart so white.
Knock.
I hear a knocking
At the south entry. Retire we to our chamber.
A little water clears us of this deed.
How easy is it, then! Your constancy
Hath left you unattended.
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The Porter
What is the purpose of a comedic scene in the midst of one of the most dramatic moments?
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Unnatural Occurrences The night has been unruly. Where we lay,
Our chimneys were blown down and, as they say,
Lamentings heard i’ th’ air, strange screams of death,
And prophesying, with accents terrible,
Of dire combustion and confused events
New hatched to th’ woeful time. The obscure bird
Clamored the livelong night. Some say the earth
Was feverous and did shake.
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The Reveal
Approach the chamber and destroy your sight
With a new Gorgon. Do no bid me speak.
See and then speak yourselves.
[…]
Shake off this downy sleep, death’s counterfeit,
And look on death itself. Up, up, and see
The great doom’s image. Malcolm, Banquo,
As from your graves rise up and walk like sprites
To countenance this horror.
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The Reaction
How do Macbeth and Lady Macbeth react to the "news" of Duncan's death? What is significant about their reactions?
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More Unnatural Occurrences Ha, good father,
Thou seest the heavens, as troubled with man’s act,
Threatens his bloody stage. By th’ clock ‘tis day,
And yet dark night strangles the traveling lamp.
Is ‘t night’s predominance or the day’s shame
That darkness does the face of earth entomb
When living light should kiss it?
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