MACBETH PACKET - Neshaminy School District



Macbeth

Double, double, toil and trouble;

Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

(IV.1.10-11)

Krenzel

2011

Contents

Calendar p. 1

Case Study p. 2

Soliloquy Project p. 3

The Geography of Macbeth p. 5

Notes: Act I: Respond p. 346 #2 - #8 (Choose one) p. 6 – 10

• scene i book p. 328

• scene ii book p. 329

• scene iii book p. 331

• scene iv book p. 337

• scene v book p. 339

• scene vi book p. 341

• scene vii book p. 343

• Act I: visualization

Identifying Character Traits p. 11

The Criminal Mind p. 12

Lady Macbeth’s Equivocation p. 13

No Regrets? p. 14

Compare/Contrast Macbeth and Lady Macbeth p. 15

Notes: Act II: Respond p. 362 #7 or #8 p. 16 – 19

• scene i book p. 348

• scene ii book p. 350

• scene iii book p. 354

• scene iv book p. 359

• Act II: visualization

Shakespeare’s Language p. 20

Notes: Act III: Respond p. 381 #3, #4, or #5 p. 21 – 23

• scene i book p. 363

• scene ii book p. 368

• scene iii book p. 371

• scene iv book p. 372

• scene v book p. 377

• scene vi book p. 378

• Act III: visualization

Reading Drama (Act IV) p. 24

Notes: Act IV: Respond p. 399 #8 or #9 p. 25 – 28

• scene i book p. 382

• scene ii book p. 388

• scene iii book p. 391

• Act IV: visualization

Reading Drama (Act V) p. 29

Notes: Act V: Respond p. 420 #5, #6, or #7 p. 30 – 34

• scene i book p. 401

• scene ii book p. 404

• scene iii book p. 405

• scene iv book p. 408

• scene v book p. 409

• scene vi book p. 410

• scene vii book p. 411

• scene viii book p. 414

• Act V: visualization

The Three Visions p. 35

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow p. 36

Character Flaws p. 37

Obituary Page p. 38

32 Second Macbeth p. 39

Macbeth Writing Projects p. 40 – 41

Macbeth Calendar

All dates subject to change with notice. Quizzes given as needed – Keep up with the packet!

Packets Due 12/9, Test 12/9, Projects Presented 12/12, 12/13 or 12/14

|Monday |Tuesday |Wednesday |Thursday |Friday |

|(October) 31 |(November) 1 |2 |3 |4 |

|Notes (p. 313 – 322) |Finish notes |Act I.1-2 | Act I.3 |Act I.4-5 |

|Intro and packet | | | |Journals due |

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|7 |8 |9 |10 |11 |

|Act I.6-7 |No School |Respond p. 346 #2 - #8 |Act II.1-2 |No School |

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|14 |15 |16 |17 |18 |

|Act II.3-4, Holinshed’s |Respond p. 362 #7 or #8 |Act III.1 |Act III.2-3 |Act III.4-5 |

|Chronicles p. 361 |Watch Acts I-II | | | |

|Journals due |[pic] | | | |

|21 |22 |23 |24 |25 |

|Act III.6, Holinshed’s |Act IV.1 |No School |No School |No School |

|Chronicles p. 380 |Journals due | |[pic] | |

|28 |29 |30 |(December) 1 |2 |

|Act IV.2-3 |Respond p. 399 #8 or #9 |Finish watching Act IV [pic]|Act V.1-2 |Act V.3-4 |

| |Watch | | |Journals due |

| |Acts III-IV [pic] | | | |

|5 |6 |7 |8 |9 |

|Act V.5-6 |Respond p. 420 #5, #6, or #7|Watch Act V |Review |TEST |

| | |[pic] | |Packets due |

| | | | |Journals due |

|12 |13 |14 | | |

|Projects |Projects |Projects | | |

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Soliloquy – Macbeth, Act I

A soliloquy is a conversation with one’s self.  In plays, it is sometimes directed at the audience.  Usually lengthy, the character speaks their inner-most thoughts aloud.  It is delivered by the character while on the stage alone.

At the beginning of Act I, scene vii, Macbeth vacillates between wanting to kill King Duncan and being content with remaining the Thane of Cawdor.  His indecision ends with him deciding that he will not kill King Duncan.  It’s not a lack of ambition, but a fear of retribution that keeps him from plotting against his king.

This activity involves creating your own soliloquy.  Choose one of the situations below.  Write at least 10 lines that show your own vacillation and indecision.  Like Macbeth, weigh the consequences of each action.  Part of the process will be to see the other viewpoint… put your self in the opposite position of your first reaction.  Show indecision, but make a decision by the end.

The situations:

1. You are lost in a desert with your best friend.  You are on the verge of death, when suddenly a man on a camel appears.  He only has enough food for one of you, and you must make the choice of who gets the food since your friend is too weak to argue either way. 

2. You’ve broken your mother’s favorite lamp, and she is due home any minute.  You know your mother would ground you for two weeks if she found out.  You also know your brother has been disciplined for throwing things around the house before, so if you blamed him, your mother would believe you.  Do you blame him or take the blame yourself? 

3. You’ve just been elected President of the Senior class, and you’ve shared the news with all of your friends and family. Later, while you are studying the results, you realize that someone made an error in counting the ballots and you actually lost the race by one vote.  The person who actually won is someone whom you know would do a terrible job.  Do you point out the error by telling the advisor or keep quiet?

We will be sharing our work. 

 

To help you get started:

Choose a problem.

Make a decision.

List the pros and cons of your decision and the consequences.

PROS                             CONS                           CONSEQUENCES

 

 

 

Are you happy with your first decision?  Make it final or change it.

Then… write!!!

Your grade will be applied to the writing component of your marking period grade.  I will grade you in the following manner:

Did you choose a situation?

Do you clearly show vacillation between the two sides?

Do you clearly show the pros and cons of each side?

Is the writing itself clear and understandable?

Did you make a final decision?

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I.i

Setting:

Characters:

1st Witch

2nd Witch

3rd Witch

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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I.ii

Setting:

Characters:

Duncan

Malcolm

Captain

Lennox

Ross

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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I.iii

Setting:

Characters:

1st Witch

2nd Witch

3rd Witch

Macbeth

Banquo

Ross

Angus

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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I.iv

Setting:

Characters:

Duncan

Malcolm

Macbeth

Banquo

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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I.v

Setting:

Characters:

Lady Macbeth

Messenger

Macbeth

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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I.vi

Setting:

Characters:

Duncan

Banquo

Lady Macbeth

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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I.vii

Setting:

Characters:

Macbeth

Lady Macbeth

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

End of Act I

Macbeth: Act I Visualization

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The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act I

Identifying Character Traits

In the first act you were introduced to five key characters in the play. In the squares below, jot down a few phrases about each character. Put their names below the squares. Then draw lines between these characters and write a brief description of their relationship to each other.

The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act I

The Criminal Mind

When Shakespeare first shows us Macbeth, we see a hero, a man who would fight to the death for the king. Throughout Act I, Shakespeare gradually introduces the moral struggle developing in Macbeth’s mind. The evil side is threatening to overwhelm the good side by the end of the act. In each column below, write events, dialogue, or thoughts that reflect these changes in Macbeth in Act I.

|The Good Macbeth |Neutral/Ambiguous |The Evil Macbeth |

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1. Do you think Macbeth would have changed if the witches had not appeared? Explain.

2. Do you think most people are as susceptible to temptation as Macbeth? Explain why or why not.

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II.i

Setting:

Characters:

Banquo

Fleance

Macbeth

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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II.ii

Setting:

Characters:

Macbeth

Lady Macbeth

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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II.iii

Setting:

Characters:

Porter

Macduff

Lennox

Macbeth

Lady Macbeth

Banquo

Donalbain

Malcolm

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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II.iv

Setting:

Characters:

Old Man

Ross

Macduff

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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End of Act II

Macbeth: Act II Visualization

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III.i

Setting:

Characters:

Banquo

Macbeth

Lady Macbeth

Attendant

1st murderer

2nd murderer

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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III.ii

Setting:

Characters:

Lady Macbeth

Servant

Macbeth

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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III.iii

Setting:

Characters:

1st murderer

2nd murderer

3rd murderer

Banquo

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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III.iv

Setting:

Characters:

Macbeth

Lady Macbeth

1st murderer

lords

Lennox

Ross

Ghost of Banquo

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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III.v

Setting:

Characters:

1st witch

Hecate

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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III.vi

Setting:

Characters:

Lennox

lord

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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End of Act III

Macbeth: Act III Visualization

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IV.i

Setting:

Characters:

1st Witch

2nd Witch

3rd Witch

Hecate

Macbeth

1st Apparition

2nd Apparition

3rd Apparition

Lennox

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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IV.ii

Setting:

Characters:

Lady Macduff

Ross

Son of Macduff

Messenger

1st murderer

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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IV.iii

Setting:

Characters:

Malcolm

Macduff

Doctor

Ross

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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End of Act IV

Macbeth: Act IV Visualization

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V.i

Setting:

Characters:

Doctor

Gentlewoman

Lady Macbeth

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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V.ii

Setting:

Characters:

Menteith

Angus

Caithness

Lennox

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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V.iii

Setting:

Characters:

Macbeth

Servant

Seyton

Doctor

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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V.iv

Setting:

Characters:

Malcolm

Menteith

Siward

Macduff

soldiers

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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V.v

Setting:

Characters:

Macbeth

Seyton

Messenger

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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V.vi

Setting:

Characters:

Malcolm

Siward

Macduff

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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V.vii

Setting:

Characters:

Macbeth

Young Siward

Macduff

Siward

Malcolm

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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V.viii

Setting:

Characters:

Macbeth

Macduff

Malcolm

Siward

Ross

Important quotes and ideas:

Questions and connections:

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End of Act V

Macbeth: Act V Visualization

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Obituary Page

(list character’s name and Act/Scene when he/she shuffled loose his/her mortal coil)

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32 Second Macbeth

Teaching Shakespeare at the Folger Library

The 32-second Macbeth

Actors 1, 2, 3 Fair is foul and foul is fair

Actor 4 What bloody man is that?

Actor 2 A drum, a drum! Macbeth doth come

Macbeth So foul and fair a day I have not seen

Actor 3 All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!

Macbeth If chance will have me king, then chance will crown me

Actor 5 Unsex me here

Macbeth If it were done when ‘tis done

Actor 5 Screw your courage to the sticking place

Macbeth Is this a dagger that I see before me?

Actor 4 dies

Actor 5 A little water clears us of this deed

Actor 6 Fly, good Fleance, fly!

Actor 6 dies

Macbeth Blood will have blood

Actors 1, 2, 3 Double, double, toil and trouble

Actor 7 He has kill’d me, mother!

Actor 7 dies

Actor 8 Bleed, bleed, poor country

Actor 5 Out damn’d spot

Actor 5 dies

Macbeth Out, out, brief candle!

Actor 8 Turn, hell-hound, turn!

Macbeth Lay on Macduff

Macbeth dies

Actor 8 Hail, king of Scotland!

|Actor 1 |Witch |Actor 4 | |Actor 7 | |

|Actor 2 | |Actor 5 | |Actor 8 | |

|Actor 3 | |Actor 6 | |Actor 9 |Macbeth |

Macbeth Writing Project Choices

Projects (choose one writing AND one creative option)

Writing:

1. Rewrite a scene from the play in modern English. (Choose the scene wisely) min 2 pages – must keep script format

2. Read about Captain Donwald and his wife in Holinshed’s Chronicles and compare and contrast them to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. (250 words)

3. Research the life of Macbeth—the title character is a real Scottish historical figure. Report the highlights of his life. (250 words)

4. Imagine you are a political reporter assigned to Macbeth’s castle. Write a news story about the events that occurred the night Duncan was killed. Include in the first paragraph or two what happened, and why it happened. Because you are writing a news story, do not include opinion or information on events that were not public events, however, make sure to include the strange happenings in nature. (150 words)

5. Research the life and assassination plot of King James I and report the highlights. (250 words)

Individual Creative:

6. On fabric or paper, create a mural of the most significant events in the story. (7 scene minimum)

7. Research life in Macbeth’s Scotland. Include such topics as housing, food, clothing, religion, entertainment, social classes, politics, education, dating and marriage, and occupations. – report back in a PowerPoint (print and bring for presentation)

8. Script a eulogy after Lady Macbeth’s death given by Macbeth.

9. Design a t-shirt that could be sold at the production of Macbeth. Include a quotation from the play. Be sure to include the name of the play and the season in which it is playing.

Group creative (2-4 people)

1. Create a board game based on the characters and plot of this play. The board game should have pictures and/or words that represent places or happenings in the story. Be sure to include detailed directions that explain how to play the game.

2. Present a news broadcast of a “special report” on the death of Duncan. Interview family members and others involved in the event. If possible, dress in clothing reflective of that time.

3. When people go to a stage production, they always receive a program. Create a program for Macbeth that includes:

a. a cover

b. Two articles of general interest-restaurant reviews, fashion trends, news stories.

c. One article on the historical background of the play-globe theater, Shakespeare’s life, life in London.

d. Act-by-act summaries (including songs if you choose a musical).

e. Several advertisements as fillers.

If you have other ideas, please “clear” them with me FIRST!!!!!!

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