Thursday 30 April: Short Intro to Macbeth handout (screencast); How to read Macbeth by yourself handout (screencast); Assignments associated with reading Macbeth; Read 1.1-1.3
Friday 1 May: Read 1.4-1.7 (rest of Act 1); Weekly Zoom call 11:30-12:30 Monday 4 May: Act 1 Activities due by 9pm; View Act I; login information is in your materials on Jupiter Tuesday 5 May: Read Act 2; View Act 2 Wednesday 6 May: Wonder Wednesday Thursday 7 May: Act 2 Activities: Your own questions about Act 2, Word journal (see initial activities handout), Reflective journal (do 5 from Act 2), Study questions (to keep your reading on track--not due in writing but important prep for Zoom call tomorrow) Friday 8 May: Read 3.1 and 3.2; Zoom call 12:00-12:45 (time different because of conflict) Monday 11 May: Read through the end of Act 3 Tuesday 12 May: Act 3 Activities (as before turn in Word Journal, 5 Reflective Journal questions from Act 3, and your own questions about the text; make your own notes about the Study Questions, possibly fodder for your the questions you ask in that component of the assignment and on the Zoom call Friday); View Act 3 Wednesday 13 May: Wonder Wednesday Thursday 14 May: Read 4.1 and 4.2; speech assigned; please submit your speech choice by 6pm today (see handout) Friday 15 May: Read 4.3; Weekly Zoom call 11:30-12:30 (please have read before Zoom call) Monday 18 May: Act 4 Activities (Word Journal update, 5 Reflective Journal questions from Act 4, your own questions about the text; make notes on the Study Questions to keep your reading on track); View Act 4 Tuesday 19 May: Read 5.1-5.5 Wednesday 20 May: Wonder Wednesday Thursday 21 May: Read 5.5-end of play; View Act 5 Friday 22 May: 1. Zoom with guest speaker Ian Blackwell Rogers (invite on your Jupiter calendar): Macbeth in Original Pronunciation; Zoom 11:30-12:30; Here is a video about original pronunciation (watch this before the call); here is a video about original practices in Shakespeare (great, but long and therefore optional). 2. Act 5 activities assigned here due no later than Tuesday (Your questions, word journal, reflective journal; Act 5 SQs are for your reference). 3. Exam materials available (exam will be essay, and will involve Macbeth); here is the handout; here is the screencast Monday 25 May: Memorial Day; no classes Tuesday 26 May: Finalize work on speech; Act 5 activities due by midnight Ian Blackwell Rogers made videos of your speeches! Listen to what he has put together. He is an actor, of course, and you are a reciter--feel free to understand from his work one reading of your speech and to recite in a way that conveys meaning: "Two truths are told": Video, actor's script mark-up "They met me in the day of success": Video, (sorry, no actor's script mark-up for this one) "If it were done when 'tis done": Video, actor's script mark-up "Is this a dagger I see before me": Video, actor's script mark-up "My former speeches have but hit your thoughts": Video, actor's script mark-up Feel free to look at all of the marked up speeches to understand what the actor pays attention to as he learns the piece--the poetry, which you may at first ignore when learning sentence by sentence, dictates to the actor a lot about expression. Wednesday 27 May: Wonder Wednesday Thursday 28 May: Speech due Let's do groups of three on a Zoom call. I will let you in from the waiting room during breaks between speeches, so please be patient if you are waiting for a minute or two; you may go once your speech is completed: 11:30-11:40: Cristina, Elise, Becky 11:40-11:50: Isha, Portia, Yahfyah 11:50-12:00: Molly, Benedetta, Anna 12:00-12:10: Grace, Allison, Franchi 12:10-12:20: Abigail, Isis, Lucia 12:20-12:30: Nadia, Izzy, Lilly 12:30-12:40: Gabby, Ruthie Friday 29 May: Exam review: Zoom call 11:30-12:30 Monday 1 June: Last day of classes; exam review *Book annotations due at book drop-off * (Books will be returned to you to keep when we meet again.) |