Day 1: Iambic Pentameter Review Sheet

Fill in the Answers to the following questions using the information in the Powerpoint presentation.

 

What is an iamb?

 

 

Stressed Syllables are represented by: ______________________

 

Unstressed Syllables are represented by:_____________________

 

What is iambic pentameter?

 

 

 

 

 

Read and listen to the stress pattern of the following line from Macbeth:

 

 

“Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth, beware Macduff”

 

Now go back and mark the stressed or unstressed syllables in this line.

 

Here is another example from Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  Please read and mark this line:

 

 

"The course of true love never did run true"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 1: Iambic Pentameter Practice

Using the information you learned about in the presentation, mark the stressed and unstressed syllables for each verse from Macbeth.

Use ´ for stressed syllables and ˘ for unstressed syllables.

Then, write on the line what type of foot is used.

 

As cannons overcharged with double cracks (I, ii, 37)

 

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No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive (I, ii, 63)

 

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So foul and fair a day I have not seen (I, iii, 38)

 

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What hath quenched them hath given me fire. Hark! Peace! (II, ii, 2)

 

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Eye of newt and toe of frog (IV, i, 14)

 

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Your Turn

Write 5 verses of your own using iambic pentameter and the given theme.

 

1. School __________________________________________________________________

 

 

2. Music

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3. Sports

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4. Movies

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5. Food

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Anticipation Guide

Take a look at the statements below.

Check “yes” if you agree, and “no” if you disagree.

 

 

It is wrong to give in to temptation.

YES___   NO___

 

There is no difference between greed and ambition.

YES___   NO___

 

There is no such thing as fate. Our actions decide everything.

YES___   NO___

 

It is right to break my moral code for a loved one, but not for a stranger.

YES___   NO___

 

If someone predicted that I would one day be in a position of importance (i.e. the President of the United States), I would wait for it to happen, rather than try to make it happen.

YES___   NO___

 

I listen to my conscience.

YES___   NO___

 

It is possible to do something wrong and not feel guilty for it afterwards.

YES___   NO___

 

You should never kill another person.

YES___   NO___

 

What goes around comes around.

YES___   NO___

 

There are people that can predict the future.

YES___   NO___

 

One should never compromise his/her values.

YES___   NO___

 

 

Now, pick one statement and on the back of this page,

sketch a scene that justifies this statement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 1: Historical Background of Macbeth

Answer the following questions using the information found on page 298 of your textbook.  This information will help you understand the history behind this play.

 

1. When Shakespeare wrote Macbeth, the story was a mixture of ____________ and _________________.

 

2. Shakespeare drew on Raphael Holinshed’s _______________ as a source for Macbeth, but adapted the material for his own purposes.

 

3. Holinshed’s story of Macbeth indicates that ____________ is Macbeth’s accomplice, not ______      ___________.

 

4. Shakespeare used what he needed from the Chronicles to create a _________    ___________.

 

5. Shakespeare chose to make ______    ___________ an innocent victim.

 

6. Macbeth is set in eleventh-century _______________, but it was written in ______________-century England.

 

7. In November of 1605, a group of __________ seeking revenge plotted to blow up the King and Parliament with the help of _______    ________, and a holiday with this name is still celebrated on November 5 in England.

 

8. The plot was revealed when was warned by letter not to attend the opening of ________________.

 

9. The plan was so frightening that it led to increased persecution of _________      ___________________.

 

10.   In Macbeth, Shakespeare capitalized on the sympathy generated for the _________ by this incident.

 

11.   Shakespeare chose the ______________ setting for this play because he knew that King James’ family, the Stuarts, came to throne in the __________  century.

 

12. ________________ was thought to be the father of the first of the Stuart kings. 

 

 Shakespeare’s Cheat Sheet  

The following is a list of terms that you may find helpful when reading Macbeth.  You can thank Shakespeare!

 

Aside:  a speech directed to the audience that supposedly is not heard by the other characters on stage at that time

 

Blank verse: unrhymed iambic pentameter

 

Comic relief:  a humorous scene or incident that relieves tension in an otherwise serious work.

 

Dialogue: the verbal exchanges between characters.

 

Dramatic irony: creates a difference between what a character believes or says and what the reader or audience member knows to be true.

 

Foot:  the metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured.

 

Iambic pentameter: A pattern in poetry which consists of five iambic feet per line. It consists of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

 

Pun: a play on words that relies on the fact that a word has more than one meaning or sounds like another word.

 

Soliloquy: when a character is alone onstage and utters his or her thoughts aloud. 

 

Tragedy: A story that presents courageous individuals who confront powerful forces within or outside themselves with a dignity that reveals the breadth and depth of the human spirit in the face of failure, defeat, and even death.

 

Tragic Flaw: an error or defect in the tragic hero that leads to his downfall, such as greed, pride, or ambition. This may be the result of bad character, bad judgment, an inherited weakness, or any other defect of character.

 

 

 

 

 

Day 2: Act 1 Pre-Reading Activity

 

Last night you read Act I, scene iii for homework.  Write three things that you remember about this scene, or three questions that you had during or after reading this scene:

 

1: _____________________________________________________________

 

2:_____________________________________________________________

 

3:_____________________________________________________________

 

 

Turn to the anticipation guide that you completed yesterday in class.  Using your own ideas or examples from the text, make a prediction about how the ideas on the anticipation guide connect to Macbeth.

 

Example: 

 

I think : Macbeth might do something to try to become the King

 

Because : the witches predicted that he would become king.

 

This connects to Anticipation Guide Activity: 5

 

Now it’s your turn:

 

I think:_______________________________________________________

 

Because:_____________________________________________________

 

This connects to anticipation guide question :____________

 

 

 

Day 3: Pre-reading Activity

 

For homework last night you completed the Sketch-to-Stretch Prediction Assignment.  Discuss your sketch with a partner.  In the space below, compare and contrast your predictions.  Do you agree with their prediction? Why or why not?

 

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Day 4: Act II Pre-reading activity

 Here and on the following page, you are given two “Open Mind” organizers. In your groups, write words and draw pictures that describe what is going on in the mind of your assigned character based on the text you’ve read so far. After class discussion, write words and draw pictures for the other character, based on your classmate’s ideas.

 

Macbeth

Macbeth by Master

A heart will always see the crime

Which is transparent to the eye;

For hearts do know, truth lies in time.

And time will prove that truth does lie,

And words to bind us to our dreams,

Which then, compose the fated plot.

And nothing's ever what it seems,

And nothing is but what is not.

Disgrace does wear a pretty face,

Which I do hate with all my love.

And blood does have that wicked taste

Of which one sip won't be enough.

All sense is lost in mind's battle

In which, uncertainty has won.

All of the glory's overshadowed

By darkened fate of Scotland's throne.

While minutes weave a solid web

To catch the dreamers in their flight,

God, give me room to take a step

To walk away and look aside!

What does this poem represent about Macbeth’s feelings? How would you feel if you were in his position? If you wanted to add any ideas to this soliloquy, why would it be?

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