Macbeth 5.1

Do now: “Not the perfect characters but the imperfect and evil characters make the deepest appeal; make, indeed, any kind of effective appeal to our imagination and to our moral sense.” Why do you think we often study evil or imperfect characters in English class?  Why do you think we are examining Macbeth and Lady Macbeth?

Objectives:

• Read text aloud to help unpack meaning
• analyze Macbeth’s change in character
• annotate a passage in order to unpack meaning

Agenda:

1. do now
2. Act 3.1
3. Close reading of Macbeth’s Act 3.1 soliloquy
1. paraphrase by sentence (not by line)
2. review the two previous speeches in the document: how has Macbeth’s character changed?  Identify textual evidence in the 3.1 soliloquy that demonstrates his changed character
4. Imagery hunting
5. Summarizer

HW: Finish annotating Macbeth’s 3.1 soliloquy.  Read Act 3 scenes 2 and 3