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Slide 2 The King James Bible (and its Importance to the English Language) Mr. Cochran Slide 3 King James Version Old Testament Psalm 23 Psalm 137 New Testament Sermon on the Mount Prodigal Son Slide 4 In the beginning... Latin 405 AD -Used by priests ONLY (public couldnt read Latin or at all) -Books expensive Printing Press 1450 -Books now available to public -Early translators to Englishoff with their heads Slide 5 1 in principio erat Verbum et Verbum erat apud Deum et Deus erat Verbum 2 hoc erat in principio apud Deum 3 omnia per ipsum facta sunt et sine ipso factum est nihil quod factum est 4 in ipso vita erat et vita erat lux hominum 5 et lux in tenebris lucet et tenebrae eam non conprehenderunt Slide 6 In the beginning... William Tyndale -Spent YEARS translating an English Bible for the public -Convicted of heresy, executed; so were other translators* Martin Luther -95 Theses against dogma of Catholic Church, especially selling indulgences -Said people are saved by faith, and Bible, not Church, is authority Slide 7 (excommunicated January 3, 1521 for writing his argument against Catholicism) Slide 8 Protestant Reformation Diet of Worms -Meeting (Diet) to give him a chance to recant in town of Worms, Germany -Here I stand; I can do no other. -Captured, house arrest for the remainder of his life His words lived onand the Church split. People began wanting a Bible for themselves, tired of forced ignorance. The Protestant Reformation began in 1517. Slide 9 So there was this king King James Is Translation -47 scholars, six teams translating from Hebrew and Greek -Remember Tyndale? They kept a lot of his work. So how does this relate to English? Wasnt it just a simple work like any other? Slide 10 IT CHANGED EVERYTHING ABOUT ENGLISH -Translated literally from Hebrew and Greek -People modified their speech -Normal English evolution altered -word order -imagery -new loanwords -idioms -Older, out of style (archaic) language, for effect -Preserved old language, which otherwise would have evolved away as it always had Appointed to be read in churches -PEOPLE STARTED EDUCATING THEMSELVES - Education = power Slide 11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN7-EvgKAsk Slide 12 Psalm 23 -Psalm: a holy song with a moral message. 1.What is the central METAPHOR? (describes something as something else) 2.What details strengthen it? 3.What do you think appealed to the audience who first heard this Psalm? What appeals to people in the modern day? Vocabulary: righteousness, anoint, metaphor, imagery Slide 13 Psalm 137 -Psalm: a holy song with a moral message. 1.What is the metaphor here? How does God differ from the Shepherd in the previous Psalm? 2.What will the speaker sacrifice? Why is this a big deal? 3.What does David think about his homeland? Vocabulary:, transgress, entreat Slide 14 Quiz 1. Name one way the King James Version of the Bible altered the English language. 2. What happened to early translators who translated the Latin Bible into English? 3. What machine made it possible to mass-produce books? 4. Why did people want the Bible in their language (English) instead of Latin? 5. What is a Psalm? 6. What is a metaphor? Bonus: Name a biblical idiom from the video. Slide 15 New Testament -Foundations of Christianity -Life of Jesus, teachings, etc. -Who was Jesus? -Gospels Slide 16 Sermon on the Mount -Sermon: a speech guiding morals. -Words of Jesus -Gospel of Matthew -Condemns materialism -Straightforward, very little metaphors -Imagery Slide 17 What is "taking thought"? Birds and lilies don't worry. He tells the people to do the same. Why is he asking these questions? (TO MAKE THEM THINK, maybe things of which they've never thought.) Slide 18 Parable of the Prodigal Son -Parable: a story with a moral message. -VERY effective teaching tool. More so for whom? What kind of world was it? Translated well to Europe's culture, just like Psalms. Slide 19 -Metaphor -Old man represents whom? -Prodigal? -Other son? Slide 20 1 What is this story about? A Money? B Wild living? C Stubbornness? D Forgiveness? 2 Who wants his share of the family inheritance? 3 What does the son do with his money? 4 Did his dad kick him out of the house for asking for his inheritance? What did he do? 5 Where did he go when he didnt have any money? 6 What did he end up doing to earn food and shelter? 7 When he returns, how does his father greet him? 8 How does the elder brother react? 9 What does the father tell the elder brother? 10 Who does the father represent? Slide 21 Mechanics and Grammar: Sentence Fragments A sentence fragment pretends to be a sentence. A sentence expresses a complete thought. The action must be finished. Slide 22 No verb? No subject? Clause? (begins with because or when and does not finish thought) THESE ARE FRAGMENTS Slide 23 Examples When I tripped and broke my ankle, NOT a complete sentence. This is a fragment. How do we fix it? Slide 24 Examples Because malaria can be transmitted by mosquitos The panther lay motionless behind the rock. Waiting silently for its prey. Slide 25 Practice 1.The panther lay motionless behind the rock. Waiting silently for its prey. 2.Aunt Mina loved to play all my favorite games. Cats cradle, Uno, mancala, and four square. 3.With machetes, the explorers cut their way through the tall grass to the edge of the canyon. Then they began to lay out the tapes for the survey. 4.Mykonos, a Greek Island. A vacation spot for Europeans. 5.While my Spanish isnt very good. I can read the language. Slide 26 Macbeth Slide 27 Great Chain of Being -Divine Order of Life for Elizabethans -NATURAL -Rebellion against it throws off natural order. As you read Macbeth, be alert to how the Chain of Being functions in the play, what the characters observe, and how they respond. Slide 28 Divine Right of Kings -King = Gods representative -Assassination = sin against God What would such an act do to the natural Order? Slide 29 Free Will vs. Fate -Free Will = man controls his own destiny (humanism) -Fate = destiny is NOT in our control WATCH for how the play is a METAPHOR for Free Will and FATE. Slide 30 ACT 1 Characters Duncan = very good King Malcolm and Donalbain Macbeth = general in Duncans army Lady Macbeth = his wife Banquo = his friend, general Ross and Angus = thanes Witches Slide 31 ACT 1 Background War in Scotland Macdonwald (Thane of Cawdor) vs. Duncan Witches Slide 32 Scene 1 The 3 witches, thunderstorm, evil plans. Want TO CREATE DISORDER. So they single out Macbeth. Slide 33 2 A wounded sergeant tells King Duncan about battle. Macbeths deeds. M = brave and loyal, disdaining fortune, kills the rebel. M restores order to kingdom. Slide 34 King: Make him the NEW Thane of Cawdor. Dudes awesome. Slide 35 1.3 3 witches bragging about murder M and Banquo returning Witches prophesy: M = Thane of Glamis, Cawdor, and KING Banquo = father of Kings Slide 36 NEWS! You are now Thane of Cawdor. IMMEDIATELY imagines killing King to take his place. Line 130 143 changes mind Slide 37 1.4 Back home. King: Party at Macbeths. M: Long live the King. Slide 38 1.5 (back at ms castle) Ms place, Lady M reading his letter (witches said hell be King) Macbeths too kind to kill the King. (Ill fix that.) 40 unsex = destroy natural order, make me violent Slide 39 1.6 King: Nice place. Wheres Macbeth? Dude drives too fast. Lady M = suspiciously nice. (Look like a flower, be the snake under it.) Slide 40 1.7 Soliloquy, M struggles with thought of killing King Lady M tries to convince him Insults his masculinity Becomes masculine herself Macbeth: Okay, Ill do it. Slide 41 Lady M: Well blame it on the servants. Macbeths final line Beginning of Tragic Fall Slide 42 ACT 1 Quiz 1.Define divine right of kings. 2.Scene 3, the witches prophesy WHAT about Macbeth? 3.What do they prophesy about Banquo? 4.What is the news in Scene 3 that convinces Macbeth of the witches power? 5.Would Macbeth have decided to kill King Duncan if his wife had said nothing? How do you know? Slide 43 The story of peoples Emotions Fears Loves Hates Prejudices Weaknesses Strengths NEVER CHANGES. Slide 44 Then and now Slide 45 The point Slide 46 Who is macbeth? HE IS A METAPHOR Slide 47 for you and me. Slide 48 Slide 49 Predictions Hell end up like the rest of them. He has no talent. Hell start using drugs. Hell end up drinking and driving. Hell end up in the gutter. Slide 50 Petty crimes Marijuana Underage Drinking Endangerment to Others Even though he already had successthe TRAGIC FALL occurs BECAUSE of what people said. Slide 51 Who gets the blame when he kills someone in a car crash? Slide 52 Shakespeare just wrote about truths that never change. And by KNOWING what he meant, we can LEARN FROM THESE TRUTHS NOT BE SURPRISED WHEN THEY PROVE TRUE REALIZE OUR OWN PASSIONS, AND REACH THEM Slide 53 Is Macbeth an evil person? Were the witches really supernatural? Whether they are or not, hes already moving up in life and because of GREED, hes walking down a bad path. Slide 54 We can all be driven by what we are told. Slide 55 Quotes Slide 56 No more that Thane of Cowdor shall decieve our bosom interest. Go pronounce his present death. Though his bark cannot be lost, yet it can be tempest tossed. All hail Macbeth, that shall be king herafter! Thou shalt get Kings, though thou be none. But 'tis strange; and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray us in deepest consequence. Slide 57 Nothing in his life became like him leaving it. There is no art to find the mind's construction in the face. I have begun to plant thee, and will labor to make thee full of growing. Stars, hide your fires: Let not lights see my black and deep desires. But screw your courage to the sticking place, and we will not fail. Slide 58 False face must hide what false heart doth know. "Come, you spirits; That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty." "Yet do I fear nature; It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way" All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee Thane of Glamis!" "All hail, Macebth! hail to thee Thane of Cawdor!" "All hail, Macebth! thou shalt be king hereafter! There's no art; To find the mind's construction in the face Slide 59 Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't. I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you; Have done to this. "Fair is foul and foul is fair." If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow, and which will not, Speak. He bade me, from him, call thee thane from Cawdor Slide 60 KNOW who said the following quotes. Youll need to know them for tomorrows test. These quotes express main ideas of scenes 1 through 5. With a partner, write your own summary of the scenes. Tell WHY the quotes matter. Slide 61 Example: 1.Fair is foul, and foul is fair. Scene 1 begins with the witches in a thunderstorm. They say fair is foul and foul is fair. This means good is bad and bad is good. The Slide 62 "Fair is foul, and foul is fair." (Scene 1) "No more that Thane of Cawdor shall decieve our bosom interest. Go pronounce his present death." (Scene 2) "All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!" (Scene 3) "Stars, hide your fires: Let not lights see my black and deep desires." (Scene 4) "Come, you spirits; That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty." (Scene 5) Slide 63 ACT 2 Characters King (for now) Macbeth, and Lady Macbeth Banquo Fleance Malcolm Lennox, Ross Slide 64 Act 2, scene 1 Conversation: Banquo and his son Fleance. Tells Macbeth in courtyard late at night he cant sleep. Banquo calls the stars candles, notes that they are all out. Remember Stars, hide your fires? Says good night to Macbeth. Slide 65 Banquo still loyal to King. Macbeth, alone, hallucinates: a dagger that leads him toward Duncans bedroom. Climbs into his chamber. Slide 66 2.2 Lady Macbeth, waiting in courtyard, meets Macbeth after the deed. Macbeths conscience, driving him crazy. Accidentally brought the murder weaponshe takes it back, smears blood on drunk guards. Slide 67 She feels absolutely no remorse. But for Macbethsleep is gone. [Macbeth] hath murdered sleep. CONCEPTS Both their ability to pray, and to sleep, have been destroyed. Slide 68 Knocking. Slide 69 2.3 Gatekeeper opens the outside gate. Macduff, here to bring King back home. Foil. Christ figure. Discovers Duncans body. Chaos. Macbeth runs in, sees the bloody servants, pretends to be furious, kills them. Why? Duncan sons, Malcolm and Donalbain, flee to England and Ireland for their own safety. Slide 70 2.4 TREASON. One of the Thanes talks to an old man outsidewho reports that Nature isnt working like normal. Rumor spreads. Why did the two sons run off? Macduff accuses them of killing their father Duncan, and announces that Macbeth has been named king. Prophecies true. Slide 71 Quiz 1.In the beginning of Act 2, Banquo says the stars are out. Why is this significant? 2. What does Lady Macbeth do with the murder weapon? 3.What is a Christ figure? 4.What is a foil? 5.Why are unnatural things happening, such as people not sleeping, nor being able to pray? Slide 72 Journal Imagine that you are Banquo, the King has been murdered, and his sons have fled to another land. Your friend, Macbeth, has just been made Kinglike the witches predicted. What do you think of this? What lies in store for YOU, and how do you feel? Whom do you suspect killed the kingand why? Slide 73 ACT 3 Characters Macbeth, and Lady Macbeth Banquo Fleance Malcolm and Donalbain Hitmen Slide 74 Setting Beginning of Macbeths rule as King. Slide 75 Act 3, Scene 1 Banquo begins to suspect Macbeth. What might lead him to think that? (Think prophecies) Macbeth invites Banquo to royal supper. Okay. Ill be there. Macbeth remembers what the witches said about Banquo. What does he do? Slide 76 Hires hitmen Convinces them Banquo deserves death (as though that matters to hitmen) Slide 77 Act 3, Scene 2 Lady M calls for Macbeth. They both agree, better to be dead than be sleepless and nervous. She wants to kill Banquo & his son. Macbeth: Im already taking care of that Its better that you dont know. Why? Says hell outsmart Fate. Slide 78 Concept Hubris: (noun) extreme pride or self-confidence. Shows loss of contact with reality, overestimation of your own ability, and standing up against higher Powers. Slide 79 Act 3, Scene 3 The two murders (and their friend) wait outside for Banquo and Fleance. They stab Banquowho, bleeding, tells his son to flee. Dies in the darknesswhich Fleance uses to escape. Slide 80 Act 3 Quiz 1.Act 3, Scene 1. Macbeth invites Banquo to _______ at the palace that night. 2.Why is he so big on killing Banquo and his son? I mean, hes already King 3.Macbeth tells Lady M. to not worry about his plan (to kill Banquo). Why doesnt he want her to know what it is? 4.What is Hubris? 5.Whom do the murderers FAIL to kill? 6.Is Fate still in charge? Slide 81 3.4 Macbeth finds out Fleance lives The banquet begins Banquos ghost enters and sits in Macbeths chair. Macbeths disturbances and direct addresses to a ghost that only he can see cause the banquet to end in disorder. After the thanes depart, Macbeth notes Macduffs absence and decides to consult the witches. Slide 82 3.5 Hecate, goddess of witches, calls the weird sisters to her Complains that shes been left out of Macbeth's downfall Wishes personally to make his downfall complete Slide 83 3.6 Meeting with a rebel lord, Lennox reveals his doubts concerning Macbeth Points out Macbeth killed the guards of Duncan's chamber very quickly Macduff has fled from Scotland to join forces with Malcolm in England. They have requested help from England's King. Lennox prays God's vengeance may fall on Macbeth. Slide 84 Concept: Paradox A paradox is a statement that seems impossible, with TWO opposite ideas that seem to contradict each other. Yet, it may still be quite true. Example: Act 1, Scene 1. The witches will meet when the battles lost and won. Slide 85 Perspective Activity Find a partner for this activity. Partner A: Lady Macbeth. B: Macbeth. Look at 3.4. The ghost is here, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are panicking. Slide 86 Perspective Activity Like we did with the page from Banquos Journal, were talking about perspective. DISCUSS the banquet scene for five to ten minutes with your partner. Write two paragraphs from M or Lady Ms perspective. What does YOUR character think about the ghost? The other partners character? How does the event change things? Was it a real ghost, or merely a hallucination? Write anything and everything your character thinks about what just happened. Slide 87 ACT 4 Characters Malcolm Macbeth, Lady Macbeth Lennox Witches Macduff and Lady Macduff Son Slide 88 Act 4, Scene 1 Macbeth revisits the witches Show him four apparitions that predict the future. 1 st, armed head, says beware of Macduff. 2 nd, bloody child, says no man born of a woman will be able to kill Macbeth. 3 rd, crowned child holding a tree, until Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane Hill, he will not be conquered. Slide 89 2 nd Apparition: "Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn / The power of man, for none of woman born / Shall harm Macbeth" (4.1.81). This is an equivocation. It sounds like it means that no man can harm Macbeth, because every man is born of woman. Slide 90 Concept: Equivocation Equivocation (noun) a vague statement with multiple possible meanings. Slide 91 Vision ends with a line of Kings (Whose sons?) Macbeth learns Macduff has left his house and sends murderers to kill his family. Slide 92 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr 8b9SQ68sw Slide 93 4.2 At Macduffs castle Lady Macduff demands to know where her husband is Messenger warns them to flee for their safety Lady Macduff refuses, soon murderers kill her son and pursue Lady Macduff Slide 94 Act 4 Quiz 1.First apparition: beware ______. 2.Second apparition: no man _______ ___ _______ can kill Macbeth. 3.Why does the third apparition give him confidence? 4.Define equivocation. 5.What does Macbeth do just after the vision is over?