DAY FIVE

Friday, March 14, 2000

GOALS/OBJECTIVES

*To explore issues of race, class, and gender in Macbeth.

*To learn about the Patriarch and the role of the Elizabethan Theatre.

*To make students more conscious of these categories in everyday life as well as in what they read for class.

*To help students relate race, class, and gender issues of today to the same issues in Shakespeare's time and in the play Macbeth.

ACTIVITIES

*Lecture and discussion on women's roles in Elizabethan drama vs. real life.

*Discuss what a Scottish clan is (relate to modern class distinctions)

*Look for issues of race in Macbeth.

*Compare Lady Macbeth to that of a typical Elizabethan woman.

*"Lady Macbeth's Decline" activity (see following sheet)

MATERIALS/RESOURCES

*H-9 Lady Macbeth Now and Then

OUTSIDE ASSIGNMENT

*Tell students to watch ten minutes of a television show tonight and pay close attention to how it is shot. They are to notice the camera moves and record in their journals one camera technique the director used. If they know words like zoom, fade, close-up, or body shot, fine; if not, tell them to explain in their own words what the camera did. They should also describe the scene in which the camera techniques were used, and explain how the technique added to the drama or mood of the scene.