Catching Up: January 16, 2019

Focus: What do we need to catch up on / revisit from the first week of Macbeth?

Please take out your yellow focus and participation sheets from yesterday. What's your goal?

1. Warming up with THE WORD TRACE! YES!

• Your new best friend: The Shakespeare Concordance

2. Reading Act 1, Scene 5 with a focus on trust and deception

With each of the main characters (Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, and King Duncan), ask yourself the following questions:

• Whom does he or she fully trust (if anyone) and why?
• Whom does he or she kind of trust and why?
• Whom does he or she not trust at all and why?

HW:
1. For FRIDAY:

• Complete this exercise from IXL Writing Strategies, Level J: Use Parallel Structure (O.1).

• Banned book proposal, signatures, and actual book due Friday.

2. ONGOING: Complete word traces for Act 1 so far; PLEASE MAKE SURE IT'S IN YOUR SHARED MACBETH FOLDER AND THAT YOU HAVE TITLED IT "WORD TRACE."