The Scottish Play Day One!

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Writing Prompt:Do you love Shakespeare? Why or why not? Do you hate Shakespeare? Why or why not? Are you freaked out or scared of Shakespeare? Why or why not?

Today’s activities

Writing Prompt Slang Exercise Intro to Shakespeare Book Check Out

Writing Prompt:Do you love Shakespeare? Why or why not? Do you hate Shakespeare? Why or why not? Are you freaked out or scared of Shakespeare? Why or why not?

Today’s objective/goal/what I want YOU to learn

Neither Shakespeare nor Mrs. deVidal are trying to mess with you in reading “The Scottish Play”

Consider some reasons why language in a text can be challenging

What is iambic pentameter and why should we care?

What did you say? With a partner, please translate the following into modern

American English

Once yonks ago, I had a walkabout and met a banana bender. He was a few kangaroos loose in the top paddock. His car was a cactus chock a block with junk, and it went kaput. He was quite a lerrikin who would lag a lot, so he became a yobbo who had to do yakka. He told me a yarn about when he was a great aerial ping pong player. He was off his face and all he had to eat was a dead horse, so I gave him a chook and a used thong I had. Never seen him since, hope he has no worries, mate!

and it says…Once, a long time ago, I went for a walk and met someone

from Queensland. He was not all there mentally. His car was a piece of junk and it had broken down. He was a rascal and irresponsible young man. He didn’t want to do much so he had to work as a manual laborer. He told me a story about how he was a great Australian Rules soccer player.

 He was extremely drunk and had nothing to eat, so I gave

him a chicken and some used sandals. I haven’t seen him since then; I hope he’s fine, friend.

What did you think? Which words were particularly difficult? Which words were familiar? Where did you

learn them? Which words still don’t make sense?

Now, try to confuse me. With your partner, write 3-4 sentences using slang I won’t understand.

Shakespeare doesn’t hate you

Remember, many of Shakespeare’s references and slang would have been perfectly normal for his time

Shakespeare wrote plays; much of his audience would have followed the story based on the action, the emotions of the characters and the tone the actors. Even his audiences didn’t understand all of it.

Shakespeare’s Life We don’t know much.

Many of the plays come from other stories that would have been familiar to his audiences.

Variations of plays come from different works found. Characters and lines can be different.

Iambic Pentameter What was it and why does it matter

Remember Romeo and Juliet? Say the line with me “But soft, what light through yonder window

breaks” Romeo and Juliet 2.2.2 10 Students up on their feet

Try these lines from Macbeth

So foul and fair a day I have not seen (1.2.1)

Can you find the rhythm and accents?

What is Macbeth saying here?-(These are his first lines in the play)

Try these lines from MacbethIs this a dagger which I see before me, / The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee (1.2.131-2)

What is Macbeth trying to say here?-(Hint-he’s thinking about murder)

Iambic PentameterIambic

Pentameter

What do you think it means?Why does it matter?....

Try these lines from MacbethIs this a dagger which I see before me, / The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee (1.2.131-2)

Where is it regular Iambic pentameterWhere is does the rhythm change/breakWhat might the character be feeling when the rhythm is regularWhat might the character be feeling when the rhythm is messed up?

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Characters

Turn to Page 3 in your textbooks Character Page. Good reference for you to go back to as

names are sometimes difficult to track

Text FeaturesTurn to page 61.1 sentence/paragraph At the beginning of each scene Give a summary of the action Provides some context

Text FeaturesTurn to page 6Footnotes to side Give definitions of difficult or unfamiliar

words and terms

Text FeaturesTurn to page 7Line numbers Generally every 5th line is marked For citations, Act I scene I, lines 3-4 becomes

1.1.3-4 (like Odyssey)

Text FeaturesTurn to page 23 Note the “aside” on line 125 Direction to whom the character is speaking.

Sometime to the audience, sometimes to a particular character

Assume that only the intended listener can hear

CharactersMajor Players: Macbeth Main character General of the Scottish army Ambitious Shakespeare Language. Macbeth speaks in

blank verse Poetry of his speech shows humanity,

CharactersMajor Players: Macbeth Divided between his moral side and his

corrupt, ambitious side Reflective, intelligent, even sensitive in a

way

CharactersMajor Players: Lady Macbeth Ambitious, savage woman attempts Goads her husband into killing his

king Suffers terrible guilt for murders Mrs. deVidal’s favorite literary villain

CharactersMajor Players: Lady Macbeth Shakespeare language: Lady M speaks in

prose regular language (less poetic than Macbeth)

Her use of language fits her practical character

Contrast w/Macbeth’s poetic language

Characters:Major Players: The three witches They set up the atmosphere in the beginning

of the play “fair is foul and foul is fair” Function is to give predictions of the future,

sometimes encouragement, sometimes warning

These predictions cause a chain reaction in Macbeth

Macbeth hears what he wants to hear