Planning for your Macbeth Essay

Posted By Christopher Waugh on Mar 6, 2015

The following captures from the classroom whiteboard outline the planning work we’ve been doing as a class for the students’ Macbeth Essay The first draft of your essay is due for completion on Tuesday – please bring it to class that...

Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair

Posted By Christopher Waugh on Feb 9, 2015

Macbeth Project

Posted By Christopher Waugh on Feb 3, 2015

Now that we’ve completed our reading and plot analysis of Macbeth, the real thinking begins. Attached to this entry is the project outline, complete with the component options and the deadlines by which the different aspects must be completed. As you work through your options in class, I’ll also give some basic demonstrations and model examples of what each aspect of the project should look like on completion. These will...

Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles…

Posted By Christopher Waugh on Jan 13, 2015

Homework-January 13th 2015 Finish your scene summary. This should include: Character list and scene location Important events of the scene A key quote with an explanation of why this quote is important Extension task:                                                “…unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles; infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.” What do Lady Macbeth’s actions in...

Is this a dagger I see?

Posted By Christopher Waugh on Nov 5, 2014

Macbeth by William Shakespeare This is a copy of the text we examined today for Personification.   Download (PDF,...

The text of Macbeth

Posted By Christopher Waugh on Sep 28, 2014

Should you miss a lesson where the play is read, or if you would like to go back and re-read sections of the play, you are encouraged to use these two sources. There is a No Fear Shakespeare version of the play online which includes a somewhat over-simplified modern English version and then there’s a great Shakespeare resource that offers you an annotated complete text.