Surprising Appearances: February 6, 2019

Focus: What and who appears in Act 4 for the first time, and why is this significant?

1. Warming up with 10 minutes of IXL / Word Trace time! You're welcome!

2. Acting out 4.1 with the apparition chart to prepare you for the play's ending

3. Reading 4.2 with your Acting Companies and responding to the following questions, grid-group style:

• Why might Shakespeare have the audience witness the murder of Lady Macduff and her son instead of having it happen off stage?

• How does Lady Macduff compare/contrast to Lady Macbeth?

• Take our your apparition charts from 4.1, and talk through the prophecies and Macbeth's reaction to them. Are there any paradoxes here

HW:
1. Read your banned book (must be finished by March 4). BRING IT TO CLASS ON FRIDAY FOR A LITTLE READING TIME.

2. Update your word trace document (you should have at least 6 or 7 entries by the end of Act 4).

3. For FRIDAY: Achieve and 85 or higher in IXL Writing Strategies, Level J: Correct Errors with Frequently Confused Words (O.4)