English 4 & 4H: 11/12,13/12

Guiding Q

• How do you chart C & E relationships?
• What does it mean to prove or document a statement and how do you do it?

Bell Ringer

• Video of the power of words (2). Students are to identify a statement in the first video and identify how they could prove or disprove it. The second video is for discussion about how you could prove the power of words within the context of the video itself, without any outside source.

Activities

• Complete the videos discussion and take up the bell ringer
• Next vocabulary test with homework is this Friday, Nov. 16
• Mini-Lesson: the burden of proof, and who/what is a useable authority
• MacBeth begins
• Assignment by next class: students must pick the character they will chart and write about. They may use any resources to find out enough about the character to choose.
• Possible Characters
• MacBeth
• Lady MacBeth
• Banquo
• Witches? Hecate? (will be more complicated)
• MacDuff
• Malcolm
• Ross
• Others? Check to make sure that they have enough of a role to consider for the essay
• Consider tracking backwards, from outcome to all the things that led to that outcome
• Classes choose how to read MacBeth: aloud or silent; part readers, or just reading; old, new, or old and new
• Words to define: feudalism, thane
• Know that we deal with the three thanes, of Glamis, of Ross, and of Cawdor
• Documentation notation
• It is recommended that students identify specific passages that impact their character
• A1S1L5 means Act 1: Scene 1: Line 5 (A quick way to note a place in the play related to their character
• Major assignment
• Once a student picks a character, they are to create a C & E chart for that character for the entire play -- lots of points
• Include notations of places of importance
• Begin reading Act 1 - through about scene 4