Honors Euro Lit.

Unit Two: Macbeth 2014-2015

Student Copy Fall


Date Agenda Homework
9/24-
9/25
Current Events Journal Due
PTO: Collect Sonnets (45 writing points), pencil,
textbook
Collect Sonnets
Read background handouts. Review page 264,
265, 270
Introduce scene performance.
Review extra credit option.
Watch and interpret various film scenes
Begin Act 1

Start work on Quote IDs
Macbeth Act I Vocabulary
Prepare for scene performances

9/26 &
9/29


Act I

Complete Quote IDs/Vocab due day of Act I
quiz
Study for Act I Quiz
Prepare for scene performances

9/30-
10/1
Act 1, scene 4 performance and discussion
Quotes Due Act 1
Vocabulary Due Act 1
Act 1 Quiz
Start Act 2

Prepare for scene performances
Start Act 2 Vocabulary/ Start Act II Quotes

10/2-
10/3
Act 2, scene 3 performance
Finish Act 2

Finish Act 2
Review Act 2 for Quiz
Prepare for scene performances
Finish on Act 2 Quotes and Vocabulary
Preview Act 3

10/6-
10/7
(conf.
week)
Review/Check Act 2 Quotes and Vocabulary
Act 2 Quiz
Read Act 3?

Act 3 Vocab & Act 3 Quotes
Prepare for scene performances

10/8-
10/9
(conf.
week)
Finish Act 3 Finish Act 3 vocabulary and quotes
Review for Act 3 Quiz
Prepare for scene performances

10/10-
10/14
Act 3, scene 4 performance
Review/Check Act 3 Quote and Vocab.
Act 3Quiz
Start to read Act 4
Preview Act 4
Prepare for scene performances
Act 4 Quotes and Vocab.

10/15-
10/16
Begin/continue Act 4 Begin Act 5 Quotes and Vocab.
Finish Act 4 Quotes
Study for 4 Quiz
Prepare for scene performances


Honors Euro Lit. Unit Two: Macbeth 2014-2015
Student Copy Fall



Be able to identify:
examples of the Great Chain of Being
the plot line of the play, reasons for and effects of each event
the characterizations/comparisons of Lady MacBeth and MacBeth

Literary Forms for Glossary
Elizabethan Drama, pg. 271
Blank Verse, pg. 293
Conflict, pg. 309
Imagery, pg. 327
Shakespearean Tragedy, pgs. 347, 362

Useful Grammar
Lie and Lay, pgs. 293, 308
Subject and Verb Agreement, pgs. 309, 326 (1-5)
Pronouns and Antecedents, pgs. 347, 362

10/17-
10/20
Act 4, scene 2 performance
Review/Check Act IV Quotes and Vocab.
Act 4 Quiz
Start Act 5

Act 5 Quotes and Vocab
Prepare for scene performance

10/21-
10/22
Finish 5
Review play
Prepare for test and essay

Prepare for test/essay
Glossary of literary terms due day of test
(blank verse, conflict, imagery, tragedy)
Finish Act 5 Quotes and Vocab.
Study for 5 Quiz
Prepare for scene performance

10/23-
10/24
Act 5, scene 1 and 7 performances
Review/check Act 5 quotes and vocab
Act 5 Quiz
Prepare for test/essay
Study for test/essay

10/27-
10/28
Check Glossary
Macbeth Test and Essay

Read background on Restoration period (pgs.
379-392)
10/29-
10/30
Restoration
Current Event Journal