Thami Hamzane #7-13 January 18th

Aim: When Juxtaposed (compared) against Macbeth how does the characterization of Macduff and themes of the play illuminate the societal pressures placed on Both Genders

               To start off today's lesson we read aloud act IV in the front of  the room, at this point in the play "Shady Ross" meets up with Macduff and Malcolm in England, who at the moment are planning to retake Scotland (this alludes to the Witches warning from earlier to "Beware Macduff"). After trying to initially hide the facts from Macduff, Ross reveals the to him informing him of how his wife and children were all savagely murdered at the hands of Macbeth. After our read aloud we viewed the same scenes we just read in the movie form with Roman Polanski's 1971 adaptation of Macbeth. I especially appreciate being able to see the movie because when you have a bunch of high school kids who aren't very familiar with how these characters talk to each other a lot of the emotion is lost.


Important lines:

"It cant be called our mother but our graves" -Ross

"Dispute it like a man" -Malcolm
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"I shall do so, but I must also feel it as a man" -Macduff

Afterwards we broke off into "Stations" where we did one of the following:

A link to our classes flip grid is provided below:

https://flipgrid.com/dd0c774c

-Thami H.