Macbeth 8.1

Do now: The Gentlewoman tells how she has seen Lady Macbeth carefully take paper, fold it, write on it, read it, and seal it--- all in her sleep.  What did Lady Macbeth write? A letter to Macbeth? A confession? Her will? A warning to Lady Macduff? Something else? Write Lady Macbeth’s letter. (Google Doc. 10 minutes)

Objectives:

• analyze textual evidence to make inferences about Lady Macbeth's transformation in Macbeth;
• connect imagery to themes.  

Agenda:

1. do now
2. Table groups: Discuss the changes you see in Lady Macbeth’s language from Act 2 to Act 5

Act 2.2 Act 5.1

“What’s done is done.”	“What’s done cannot be undone.”
“A little water clears us of this great deed. How easy is it then!”	“Will these hands never be clean?”
“The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures.”	“Yet who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him?”

3. Table Groups: Act out this scene! Assign parts, rehearse, and film it!
4. Summarizer

HW: Read Act 5 scenes, 2, 3, and 4