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Unit Title:
Macbeth
English 3-4
ASSESSMENT
Assessments that will be used to gauge student learning.
Quizzes (multiple choice and short answer): one quiz per Act
RESOURCES/MATERIALS
Copyrighted materials:
Book: Signet Classic Macbeth (copies available from Mountain View school library; class sets available)
Copyrighted Material: 2005 Michael Bogdanov and Tim Supple directed production of Macbeth, available from
University of Arizona library; allowed use for educational purposes
TED talk: Hip-Hop and Shakespeare?: available on YouTube
No Fear Shakespeare: available online http://nfs.sparknotes.com/macbeth/
Teacher-Created Materials:
Notetaker on Hip Hop and Shakespeare? and poetic meter and Shakespearean language
Graphic organizer on major characters and their motivations
Materials already created:
Vocab Prezis (created by Mountain View English department)
Fate anticipatory activity
Additional Copies to be made:
Copies of selected speeches from play
Resources in class:
Dictionaries
Construction paper, markers, scissors and adhesive for word wall
Unit Calendar
MONDAY
March 23rd
Vocab Prezi
Brainstorming
prior knowledge
about
Shakespeare
Start Hip Hop
and
Shakespeare?
video
TUESDAY
March 24th
Vocab bellwork
Hip Hop and
Shakespeare?
video
Introduce poetic
meter and
Shakespearean
language
(notetaker)
WEDNESDAY
March 25th
Vocab bellwork
Fate
anticipatory
activity
(handout/
notetaker)
Brainstorm prior
knowledge
about witches
Start reading
Scene I and II
(start in class; what is
not finished is
homework)
THURSDAY
March 26th
Vocab Bellwork
Start reading:
Scene III and IV
Read no fear
Shakespeare
version as well:
compare
FRIDAY
March 27th
Read Macbeth
in class, Scene
V
Start creating
vocabulary word
wall; continue to
add to it
throughout unit
Start in
class/finish for
homework:
Scene VI and VII
for homework
(9-10.RL.4)
(9-10.RL.2)
March 30th
March 31st
Vocab prezi
Vocab bellwork
Act I Review
Act I Quiz
Start filling out
graphic
organizer for
major
characters
motivations:
What do I want?
What am I willing
to do to get it?
What is in my way?
On whom can I
rely, and whom do
I fear?
(9-10.RL.3)
April 1st
Vocab bellwork
Start in class,
finish as
homework: Act
II, Scene I and II
April 7th
Act II Quiz
Start in class,
finish as
homework: Act
III, Scene I and
II
April 8th
Vocab Review
Show films clips
from 2005 film
Homework: Act
III, Scene III and
IV
(9-10.RL.7)
April 6th
Act II review
Start in-class
activity:
students, in
groups, given
speech to
translate to
contemporary
language
April 2nd
Vocab bellwork
Student
continue work
on speech
translation
activity.
Homework: Act
II, Scene III
April 9th
Vocab Review
Show film clips
from 2005 film
Homework: Act
III, Scene V
(9-10.RL.7)
April 3rd
Students
present speech
translation
activity
Homework: Act
II, Scene IV
April 10th
VOCAB QUIZ
Start in class,
finish as
homework: Act
III, Scene VI