European Studies: What's Next

Homework: Prepare for Socratic Seminar and finish grading your paragraph. Start studying for the Macbeth Test.

Schedule:
Monday: Final Macbeth Discussion (Socratic Seminar)
Tuesday: Macbeth Test
Wednesday: Vocab. Quiz and Research Time for Renaissance Ball
Thursday: Learn to Dance
Friday: Renaissance Ball

Socratic Seminar: Macbeth
Prepare for the seminar by answering the following questions. You must back up your answers with lines from the text and reference to the text. This will be your entrance slip to the Socratic Seminar on Monday. You will not be able to gain entry to the seminar without all of the questions completed.

What is the significance of the witches?
Who is a better or worse person, Macbeth or Lady Macbeth?
Which theme that you have been following is the most important to your understanding of the play? Explain.
What is the main message of Macbeth?

Macbeth Test
Test will be a combination of multiple choice, matching, quote identification and writing.

To study:
Review your notes taken as we read Macbeth. If you have your own copy which you have been annotating, read back through your annotations, paying attention to the most important lines, actions and concepts. As you are doing this, try to formulate possible test questions or guess which lines might end up in the quote ID section. Anything that was discussed and emphasized in class is more likely to end up on the test. Review your theme chart to remind yourself of how the various themes develop in the play. Some concepts you must be sure to review are the concept of the Great Chain of Being and how it is important to the play, the medieval and Renaissance mindsets, including beliefs about witches and about heaven and hell. Also know and understand the following Shakespearean terms and be able to identify them: soliloquy, aside, antithesis, imagery, dramatic irony.The written portion of the test will come from our Seminar on Monday.