Jan 26, 2016 - Students read excerpts from Niccolò Machiavelli’s political treatise, The Prince. Students use the skills, practices, and routines that they have developed throughout the year to identify central...

Jan 26, 2016 - Students read and analyze Macbeth, Act 5.7 and 5.8, in which Macbeth engages in battle with Malcolm and his thanes and is defeated and killed by Macduff, who, Macbeth learns, was not born of woman...

Jan 26, 2016 - Students read and analyze Macbeth Act 5.2 and 5.3, in which the thanes desert Macbeth, who seeks assurances in the Witches’ prophecy and who receives updates from the Doctor on Lady Macbeth’s illness...

Jan 26, 2016 - Students read Act 4.3, lines 200–282 of Macbeth, in which Ross tells Macduff of his family’s murder. 

Jan 26, 2016 - Students read Act 4.2 of Macbeth, in which Lady Macduff laments her husband’s decision to flee Scotland instead of defending his family, and in which she and her children are slain by Murderers...

Jan 26, 2016 - Students read and analyze Act 3.1 of Macbeth, in which Banquo airs his suspicions of Macbeth’s foul play and Macbeth hires a troupe of murderers to kill Banquo and his son Fleance. 

Jan 26, 2016 - Students read and analyze Macbeth Act 2.3, in which a drunken Porter opens the gates of the castle to Lennox and Macduff, prompting the discovery of Duncan’s murder and the flight of his sons Malcolm...

Jan 26, 2016 - Students read and analyze Macbeth Act 2.1, in which Macbeth and Banquo agree to discuss their encounter with the witches at a later date and Macbeth prepares to kill Duncan. 

Jan 26, 2016 - Students develop these close reading skills as they examine Shakespeare’s Macbeth. They also continue to develop their oral presentation and argument writing skills through a series of activities...

Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students read “Women,” a poem by the contemporary writer, Alice Walker. Students work in pairs to analyze Walker’s poem before working in small groups to consider how the poem...

Jan 26, 2016 - In the second of two lessons that comprise the End-of-Unit Assessment, students will craft a multi-paragraph response exploring how Sophocles develops the central idea Oedipus’s guilt throughout the...