December 14 ... Exams, Review, and Last Chance at Optional Quiz/Test
- Macbeth Projects - are LATE ... but LATE is still better than a zero. If your name is on my side board, I have not received your project.
- Exams are next week ... ours will be a CBA/STAAR style exam with cold reads and questions from them as well as some questions over editing and revising. You may want to review the following
- WORDS TO REVIEW: Rectitude, Sophisticated, Elegant, Candid, Ponderous, Refined, Plausible, Forthright, Transparency, Desperation, Decisiveness, Uprightness, Induced, Retinue, Savor, Piety, Clemency
- LITERARY CONCEPTS TO REVIEW: Figurative Language, Symbol, Tone, Theme, Conflict, Summary
- REVISING/EDITING REVIEW: Capitalization Rules, Using Hyphens, Writing Numbers in a Sentence, Comma Rules, Using Colons and Semicolons,
- ANSWER ANY 2 for a bonus QUIZ grade
- ANSWER ALL 5 for a bonus TEST grade
- TURN IN BY THURSDAY 12/14!
- How and why is the contrast between appearance and reality so important in the play? Include the role the witches play in affecting the play’s events.
- What is Shakespeare saying about the nature of prophecy and fate? Just because the witches predict things doesn’t mean they’re able to see the future…right?
- What is Shakespeare saying about what it means to be a man? Which character(s) do you think Shakespeare believes is the best example of a man?
- Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth change dramatically over the course of the play, and their marriage changes, too. What are these changes, what causes them, and how and why is their relationship in the end so different from their relationship in the beginning?
- At the end of the play, is Macbeth’s death a good or bad thing, i.e., are we satisfied to see Macbeth defeated or upset to see a potentially great man fall? Finally, is Macbeth a tragic hero?
- Semester Exam Schedule - https://www.sfisd.org/cms/lib/TX02215329/Centricity/Domain/203/Fall%20Semester%20Final%20Exam%20Schedule.pdf