The Worms Return

After reading the highlights of the blog/twitter Macbeth creative project, your homework this evening is to check out all the blogs/twitter account and send me an e-mail with the name of the person with the best blog.

Meanwhile in class, we read "To His Coy Mistress," a favorite from AP Lang. Instead of reading it as an argument (I will be doing that this week with the Langers), we looked at rhyme scheme and meter. Marvell does not mix it up too much -- very consistent for such an ardent speaker -- so we will look at other Carpe Diem poems tomorrow.

We also completed a Multiple Choice passage -- Keats' "Bright" Star.

Don't forget that the first draft of the psycho motif essay is needed for Wednesday's class. We will travel to the Career Center to have a peer edit with all of your classmates. Make sure you have a hard copy ready to go!

Blogging

What turned out as a creative 1 day wrap-up assignment for Macbeth has turned into a creative maelstrom of blogging prowess. Due to David's exemplary witchcraft blog, several students have created blogs through blogger to add to their chosen characters. Actually, we are realizing that this would be an awesome unit assignment for next year's Shakespeare text. This is not a requirement -- you can also complete a presentation through Google or Prezi.

Here is the link to David's blog. http://www.canimakeyouasandwitch.blogspot.com/ Feel free to go there and comment, as your character, of course.

And, here are a few more blogs. Please be school appropriate with your blogs and comments! And, if you are using text or an idea from another source, make sure you cite your original sources! Thank you in advance.

http://www.whydoesnoonebelieveme.blogspot.com/
http://witchesgetstitches3.blogspot.com/
http://www.duncandonutsswagmaster.blogspot.com/
http://gossipbanquo.blogspot.com/
http://ladyliberativemacbeth.blogspot.com/
http://waybetterthanmacbeth.blogspot.com/
http://macduffslife.blogspot.com/
http://betterthanalltheotherwitches.blogspot.com/

For your psychoanalysis motif essay, the first draft is due December 2 and the final draft will be due December 11.

Malcolm, Motifs, Blogs

For our shortened work week, we will be wrapping up Macbeth items in order to prep for your essay assignment (which will officially arrive on Tuesday). Today's agenda featured a second Macbeth box prompt focusing on Malcolm. I will be returning both Macbeth box prompts to you, and next week at some point you will have a timed writing prompt on one of these prompts (writer's choice). Next item of business is working with your motif partner to review and discuss examples and questions from a handout. Do not lose this handout because you will need it for tomorrow's class. Last up, we picked our characters for our blogging experience. The majority of tomorrow's class will focus on writing up your character blogs (minimum of 3), which we will share after break.

By the way, the film will be out next month -- I have no idea if it will open wide here but fingers crossed.

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On a personal note, my fecund fish tank holds only one fish now. I stopped naming the fish when they started multiplying at a rapid rate but have decided to name the last fish. Her name is Mohican. I hope you get the allusion.

King Malcolm

We finished the play! What does that mean? Next week, you will be working with your motif log, the list of examples from the play that you have been keeping these last weeks, to complete assessments regarding the play. If you are behind in your motif examples, take the time this weekend to add to your log.

School Yourself, Egg

To make it spicy today, we started off with drama multiple choice passages. All students taking the multiple choice today had at least 50% of the questions correct, which is the first goal of AP Lit multiple choice tests.

For the rest of the hour, we read the remainder of Act IV, which did not feature much of the main man Macbeth. However, his decisions and behavior did envelop the remaining scenes and the characters struggling with his tyrannical reign. From the the murder of helpless women and "babes" at the Macduff abode to Malcolm and Macduff's "manly" determination to war, Macbeth's fingerprint is all over these characters' demises and vengeful actions.

Fingers crossed that we will finish the play on Friday. Make sure you are keeping up with your motifs -- you will be using these next week when the paper assignment drops.

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Hecate

Brevity is the art of AP Lit Blog today. Hecate box prompt, which will be an option for a timed writing prompt in the future. Quick recap of 3.6. New prophecies of 4.1 leave Macbeth more confident than before. After all, how can someone not be born of a woman or how can a forest move?

We will continue with Act IV tomorrow...

3.2

For today's Macbeth discussion, students created 5 discussion questions for 3.2 and then used these to lead class in the analysis of specific details and overall elements of the play. If you were absent, you will need to give me these 5 questions to make up discussion points.