Beginning Macbeth

We're starting to read Macbeth today after spending a class period and a half on concept development. We discussed themes of Macbeth, predicted plot elements, and experimented with performance through your Macbeth anticipatory skits.

4th and 5th hours also had a chance to complete a Frayer Model on the concept of "Ambition." After we identified essential and nonessential characteristics of ambition and thought of some examples and non-examples of ambitions people, groups wrote the following definitions of ambition:

Ambition is:

• actively pursuing passion.
• a drive to achieve goals with passion, motivation, and integrity.
• a willingness to do what it takes.
• the will to succeed despite obstacles.
• the extreme desire to succeed at something.
• the determination and focus to achieve no matter the odds.
• the personal desire to achieve goals.
• "the fire" (like in The Road.)

We'll come back to these definitions as we analyze characters in Macbeth.