Warm -upList a couple of your favorite movies.

What do you like about them? (i.e., plot development, characterization, tone, mood, atmosphere, dialogue, conflicts, etc.).

Email the link of your Animoto video to pollarddropbox@hotmail.com. Please list your group members and number in the subject line.

Standards ELACC11-12RL3: Analyze

the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama …

ELACC11-12RL4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful…

ELACC11-12RL10: …read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems…

Essential Question How do the author’s

choices regarding how to develop and relate certain elements of a drama make an impact?

?

http://animoto.com/play/u344a33He0g0qusHEWP8Ow#

A few facts… Macbeth was a real

person. In Shakespeare’s

time, Macbeth was a thriller.

More about the psychological truth than in historical fact.

Shakespeare’s plays were affected by the rulers of the time, called a command performance.Story linesGenresSubjects

“If King James, the patron of Shakespeare’s company, ever saw the play, it must have pleased him. Since he had recently survived the Gunpowder Plot, James was especially interested in attacks on kings; he always defended the idea that he ruled by divine right.”

King James was a Scot before ruling England after the death of Queen Elizabeth I.

Dramatic Terminology

Types of Plays

History Plays A play representing events drawn wholly or partly from recorded history.

Comedies Plays with a happy ending, usually involving marriages between the unmarried characters, and a tone and style that is more light-hearted.

Tragedies(Macbeth)

The protagonist must be an admirable but flawed character. They are capable of good and evil. Has an unhappy ending.

Romances aka tragi-comedy

Both tragic and comic characteristics.

Macbeth 2.1. 22-23 Segments Macbeth II. i. 22-23

Play the stage representation of an action or story; a dramatic composition

Act one of the principal divisions of a theatrical work; modern plays are typically divided into one or two acts; Shakespeare uses 5 acts

Scene a division of a play or of an act of a play, usually representing what passes between certain of  the actors in one place

Line The dialogue spoken by an actor; could be associated with a sentence

Stage Directions

Upstage The back of the stageDownstage The front of the stageStage right/left

The side of the stage; from point of view of actor

Center stage The middle of the stageExit That person leaves the stageExeunt Everyone on stage exits

Italics Not spokenSetting Tells what HAS to be included in

the setting to make the scene make sense

Stage directions

Physical directions

Characterization

Specific character instructions (emotional)

The Theatre

House Where the audience sitsWings Offstage to the left and rightProscenium arch The “frame” around the

stage/acting area

Apron The area in front of the proscenium arch

Orchestra pit Area for the orchestra, usually in a large hole in front of the stage

Main curtain The large heavy curtain in the front of the stage

Proscenium Arch stage

The Globe Theatre

Act I, Scene 1http://thisismacbeth.com/movie/clips/clip-theatre-act1-scene1.shtml

Exit SlipWhat are the

connotations of witches in literature? OR What are three things you learned about Shakespeare from other groups?

Finish reading Act I, Scenes 2 and 3.Fill in Summary Chart for those

scenes.

Homework