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Lady Macbeth http://legends.dm.net/shakespeare/macbeth.html

InquiryTask Create your own web page answering one question on Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, that you choose.  You will post these web pages on the Internet and they will be linked to a class URL. (Directions are available using Microsoft Front Page Editor to creat web pages.)

Purpose :
to help other students understand the play, Macbeth, by William Shakespeare.

Process:
For help getting started click here.
Some possible questions you can use if you do not want to make up your own question:

1. Macbeth's conflict within himself and with his wife in Acts 1 and 2 concerns whether or not he should kill Duncan.  What is
the conflict in detail and explain why he kills Duncan?

2.  Why does Macbeth kill Banquo and attempt to kill Fleance?

3. Why does Macbeth kill Lady Macduff and her children?

4.  How and why are Banquo and Macbeth different?

5. How and why does the disasters in the natural world mirror the political disorder in Scotland in Macbeth ?

6. How and why does Lady Macbeth push Macbeth to murder Duncan?

7. Why does Macbeth commit evil acts when he knows they are wrong?

8. What powers do the weird sisters possess?  Do they purposely set evil events in motion, or are they simply predicting
what will happen?

9.  What makes Macbeth seem like a good man, not an evil murderer?

10. Does Macbeth regret what he has done?

11.  How and why does Lady Macbeth change?

12. How and why does the Macbeths' relationship change?

13.  How does Shakespeare show that things and people are not always the way they appear?

14. Is Macbeth an assassin or a tragic hero?

15. Can you explain Shakespeare's imagery using clothing, animals, plants, blood, and night and darkness? Give examples.

16. How are Malcolm and Macbeth different?

17. How are Lady Macbeth and Macbeth different?

18. How is Macduff the nemisis of Macbeth?

19. Is the play, Macbeth, and example of "He who lives by the sword, perishes by the sword?" Support your belief.
 

Requirements
Type the original lines from Macbeth , Include the act, scene and lines -(ie. I, viii, 1-7) You can copy and paste lines from hypertext link.

Explain the meaning of these lines fully.

Show how these lines answer the question you choose in your writing.

Answer the question.

optional-Memorize these lines and speak them before the class and into a digital video camera.  (You can choose to use parts of the digital tape on your web page.)

Design the page in an attractive way that will also enhance the answer to the question and help other students to understand the play, Macbeth.  Include an image.  Include a hyperlink to the student page- http://teachersnetwork.org/teachnet-lab/fklane/pmaslow/macbeth/answers.htm

See the home page for all the helpful links especially background which has  paintings and photographs as a link at the bottom of the page. If you want to use photos of Scotland use http://scotlandphotos.net/

Evaluation