You will learn how a theme is developed by analyzing words and phrases in a text.
You will learn how to distinguish complex, dynamic characters from static characters in a play.
Act 3 Focus Questions:
How are traditional stereotypes defined in the text?
Do Macbeth and Lady Macbeth fit typical gender stereotypes in the play? Why or why not? Explain.
Quotable Quotes Notes Act 3: Tone: 1. uneasy- "To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus."---Macbeth "put rancors in the vessel of my peace"--Macbeth 2. threatened- "our fears in Banquo stick deep"--Macbeth "There is none but he whose being I do fear" -Macbeth 3. defiant/resolved- "come, Fate, enter the list, and champion me to the utterance."-Macbeth
1. How would you describe Banquo's personality based on the opening speech in this scene? (Act 3, Scene 1, lines 1-10)
2. Why does Macbeth tell Banquo he wishes to speak with him but must postpone it due to Banquo's plan to go riding?
3. Why is Macbeth angered by the idea of a "barren scepter"?
4. What do you think of Macbeth when he arranges Banquo's murder?
Act 3, Scene 2
5. Explain whether or not Macbeth's and Lady Macbeth's actions here match stereotypical gender roles.
Act 3, Scene 3 Questions:
6. Why does Shakespeare allow Fleance to escape?
Act 3, Scene 4
7. What does it add to have the murderer interrupt Macbeth's feast with news of Banquo's death? (Think of how the mood of the moment is changed once the murderer enters with the news.)
8. How do you feel when Banquo's ghost enters the scene?
Objectives: Summarize Scene 1 of Act 3 of Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Collaborate to analyze the development of a character over the course of the text.
Objectives: Summarize Scenes 2-3 of Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Collaborate to continue to analyze the development of a character over the course of the text.
Same Resources are needed as for LZ Lesson 23, continued.
Objectives: Students read and summarize scenes iv-vi of Act III of Macbeth by William Shakespeare. They also write a well-developed paragraph analyzing the development of Macbeth’s character over the course of the text.