Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Macbeth Resume Assignment-- Wednesday

Later this month, you are going to complete a resume, cover letter, and job application for yourself, then take part in a senior interview. In order to both prepare for that AND to get in some creative work with Macbeth, I want you to do a resume for Macbeth. You may use any template that you want to use (word online is a great place to start) for resumes, but you will fill in the information as if MACBETH was writing a resume to take power. Be as creative as you want to be but hold to the text. For example, in previous experience, you might mention his "unseaming" of his enemy in Act I. For references, the witches might be good options. Be creative with his name, his address, etc.. This can be a really fun assignment and the ones last semester turned out GREAT. When you finish, and you need to finish this class period, email it to me at adavis@clevelandschools.org . Make certain you are finished by the end of the class. I can't wait to read them!

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Week of February 27

You will have a sub for half the week but we will be making the most of your time every day, I promise.

Monday, February 27
Act III

Tuesday, February 28
Act III

Wednesday, March 1
Macbeth Resume
SUB

Thursday, March 2
Senior Memory Book 6
SUB

Friday, March 3
Senior Memory Book 7/8
Word Tracing
Journals Due
SUB

Macbeth Memorization Extra Credit

Long post, but here they are. If you want to do extra credit memorization and then recite it for me, you are welcome to. :) 

Option 1
Act I, scene 7, lines 1-29
  If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well
    It were done quickly: if the assassination
    Could trammel up the consequence, and catch
    With his surcease success; that but this blow
    Might be the be-all and the end-all here,
    But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
    We'ld jump the life to come. But in these cases
    We still have judgment here; that we but teach
    Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
    To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice
    Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice
    To our own lips. He's here in double trust;
    First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
    Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,
    Who should against his murderer shut the door,
    Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan
    Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
    So clear in his great office, that his virtues
    Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against
    The deep damnation of his taking-off;
    And pity, like a naked new-born babe,
    Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed
    Upon the sightless couriers of the air,
    Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,
    That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur
    To prick the sides of my intent, but only
    Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
    And falls on the other.


Option 2
Act II, scene 1, lines 33-61
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(45)
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.
Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going,(50)
And such an instrument I was to use.
Mine eyes are made the fools o’ the other senses,
Or else worth all the rest. I see thee still,
And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Which was not so before. There's no such thing:(55)
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one half-world
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd Murder,(60)
Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace,
With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design
Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear(65)
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,
And take the present horror from the time,
Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives;
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.

Option 3
Act IV, scene 1
  First Witch.  Thrice the brinded cat hath mew’d. 
  Sec. Witch.  Thrice and once the hedge-pig whin’d.   4
  Third Witch.  Harper cries: ’Tis time, ’tis time. 
  First Witch.  Round about the cauldron go; 
In the poison’d entrails throw. 
Toad, that under cold stone   8
Days and nights hast thirty-one 
Swelter’d venom sleeping got, 
Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot. 
  All.  Double, double toil and trouble;  12
Fire burn and cauldron bubble. 
  Sec. Witch.  Fillet of a fenny snake, 
In the cauldron boil and bake; 
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,  16
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, 
Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting, 
Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing, 
For a charm of powerful trouble,  20
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. 
  All.  Double, double toil and trouble; 
Fire burn and cauldron bubble. 
  Third Witch.  Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,  24
Witches’ mummy, maw and gulf 
Of the ravin’d salt-sea shark, 
Root of hemlock digg’d i’ the dark, 
Liver of blaspheming Jew,  28
Gall of goat, and slips of yew 
Sliver’d in the moon’s eclipse, 
Nose of Turk, and Tartar’s lips, 
Finger of birth-strangled babe  32
Ditch-deliver’d by a drab, 
Make the gruel thick and slab: 
Add thereto a tiger’s chaudron, 
For the ingredients of our cauldron.

Option 4
Act V, scene 3, lines 22-28 and Act II, scene 1, lines 48-72
I have lived long enough: my way of life
Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf;
And that which should accompany old age,
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,
I must not look to have; but, in their stead,
Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath,
Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. Seyton!
To be thus is nothing;
But to be safely thus.--Our fears in Banquo
Stick deep; and in his royalty of nature
Reigns that which would be fear'd: 'tis much he dares;
And, to that dauntless temper of his mind,
He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour
To act in safety. There is none but he
Whose being I do fear: and, under him,
My Genius is rebuked; as, it is said,
Mark Antony's was by Caesar. He chid the sister
When first they put the name of king upon me,
And bade them speak to him: then prophet-like
They hail'd him father to a line of kings:
Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,
And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,
Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand,
No son of mine succeeding. If 't be so,
For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind;
For them the gracious Duncan have I murder'd;
Put rancours in the vessel of my peace
Only for them; and mine eternal jewel
Given to the common enemy of man,
To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings!
Rather than so, come fate into the list
And champion me to the utterance! Who's there!

Option 5
Act I, scene 3, lines 130-142/Act V, scene 5, lines 19-28/Act 5, scene 8, lines 27-34
This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill,
Why hath it given me earnest of success,
Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor:
If good, why do I yield to that suggestion
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
Against the use of nature? Present fears
Are less than horrible imaginings:
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man that function
Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is
But what is not.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
I will not yield,
To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet,
And to be baited with the rabble's curse.
Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane,
And thou opposed, being of no woman born,
Yet I will try the last. Before my body
I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,
And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'

Friday, February 17, 2017

Week of February 20

MACBETH!!! Can't wait!!!

Monday, 2/20
No school

Tuesday, 2/21
Macbeth intro (notes)
Act I

Wednesday, 2/22
Finish I
Act II

Thursday, 2/23
Act II
Sub in fourth

Friday, 2/24
Act II

Monday, February 13, 2017

Week of February 13

Well, we have had to readjust but it's totally no big deal because HOW AWESOME WERE THOSE DAYS OFF????? :)

Monday, 2/13
Senior Memory Book 5
Arthurian Legends, Norms

Tuesday, 2/14
Final Activity

Wednesday, 2/15
Finish, Presentations

Thursday, 2/16
Unit 2 Test

Friday, 2/17
Intro to Renaissance

Arthurian Legends Assignment

In your textbook, read pages 190-196 (Le Morte d’ Arthur). When you finish, complete the assignment below.

You have read The Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight, and the Arthurian Legend in your book. You should have a pretty good handle on the society represented by these works (a “Knight’s Tale” movie helped as well). I want you to come up with a list of “norms” that the Middle Ages society would have been defined by.... societal expectations, in other words. Use textual evidence to support them. This means that beside each norm, you need to reference something from one of these works.  The last step of this assignment is to create a list of norms for what you believe is an ideal society... not necessarily the one in which we live, thought it might be.  I am including the Norms that Cleveland High School has chosen for this school year below as an example. (You might also want to ask yourself if you are following those norms in your regular school day.....)

Work Hard
Be on time.
Come prepared to be a part of this community.
Be a good listener and share your voice.
Be Nice
Yourself
Your Peers
Your Leaders
Your School
Get Smart
Be flexible and willing to accept challenges.
Take charge of your learning.
Be an active and engaged listener.

Monday, February 6, 2017

Week of February 6

We finish Unit 2 this week! Test is Friday!

Monday, 2/6
Senior Memory book 3/4
WOB Tale

Tuesday, 2/7
Final Activity

Wednesday, 2/8
Final Activity

Thursday, 2/9
Final Activity finished, presentations

Friday, 2/10
Unit 2 Test