Class Minutes: Monday, March 29th

We finished reading ACT III and did 2 comprehension worksheets:
a. order the events of III.iv
b. Top 10 quotes of Act III
The motif paragraph due date has been extended until Wednesday because a lot of students were away on the Socials 11 field trip last class.
Next class you also have an Act III quiz. You can use your hand written log if you want. Log notes are posted on Moodle.

Class Minutes: Thursday, March 25th

Many students were absent due to the Socials 11 field trip. But, we read ACT 3, Scenes ii-iii. Then, we answered the question: What evidence is there that Macbeth is the third murderer, commenting on each of the six statements of the third murderer. Then, we started a motif paragraph assignment. One paragraph is due on Monday.

Class Minutes: Tuesday, March 25th

We finished the pathetic fallacy paragraphs, discussed the Act II log notes (which are posted on Moodle), and read III.i.

Class Minutes: Wednesday, March 17th & Friday, March 19th

On Wednesday, we mainly read Act II.i-iii, pausing for discussion. We finished a ticket out the door before leaving the classroom.

On Friday, we finished reading Act II and started a paragraph on the use of pathetic fallacy in the final scene. Before writing, we had to read the comments on our Macbeth character sketch's, which were handed back, and complete the next row in our assignment log. In addition, we discussed our responsed to the ticket out the door last class: What did Malcolm and Donalbain decide to do? Why? How will it be interpreted? Finally, we went over the answers to the Act 1 quote quiz. No homework over the weekend.

Class Minutes, March 15th

1. Prayer

2. Mrs. Wall handed back the worksheets that we did last week

• Act 1 Scene 3 : Character Analysis
• Lady Macbeth's Persuasion Techniques

3. Mrs. Wall went over the worksheet with the class

• Act 1 Scene 3 : Character Analysis

4. Mrs. Wall summarized all of Act 1 to the class, making sure we understood what was going on

5. Mrs. Wall then handed the class the answer key to

• Macbeth : Act One Comprehension Questions

6. Mrs. Wall then made us take notes on all the literary devices that were used in Act One

7. Then for the rest of the class we were tested on our memorization on all of Act One. Mrs. Wall gave us a sheet that had sentences, and we had to write down who said it, who were they talking to and what were the circumstances when it was said.

Class Minutes, March 11, 2010

For this English class, Mrs. Wall was away, so we had a substitute teacher.
First, we listened to a CD recording of Macbeth, following along in our textbooks. We read through Act One, Scenes 6 and 7. After finishing going through Scenes 6 and 7, we filled out a chart on the Lady Macbeth's schemes to get Macbeth to kill Duncan, using quotes and filling out explanations. Once we finished the chart, we were given a worksheet with Act One comprehension questions. The chart was collected at the end of class, along with the worksheet if you were done (if not then it was for homework).

Class Minutes, March 5th

Today, we started off by going over Act 1, Scene 2 of Macbeth, and we talked abouthe similes found in it, which show Macbeth's initial bravery. Then wrote in our Macbeth Logs, under the literary devices section : [Characters: Macbeth is introduced as a war hero: valiant, noble, strong. It is important that he starts on a pedestal so that he can be a tragic hero, and fall. Tragedy depends on the fall of an already great man. Simile and metaphor are used to reveal his bravery: a) "Like valour's minion, carved out his passage" (I.ii.20)
b) "Till that Bellona's bridegroom.." (I.ii.62)
c) "Dismayed not...our captains...Yes, as sparrows eagles or the hare the lion." (I.ii.38-39) ]
That was what we wrote a paragraph based on. We spent around 20 minutes writing a paragraph response on William Shakespeare's use of metaphor to develop Macbeth's character. At the end of class, we got a hand out about how Macbeth is a tragic hero and literary devices which commonly appear in Macbeth.

Class Minutes, March 1, 2010

Today we explicated two sets of poems. The first two are about love: The Je Ne Sais Quoi and Sonnet 130. The second two are about death: Sleeping at Last and Song. You could choose a set to begin writing a compare and contrast multi.