Compassion and Sacrifice Essential Questions

Our second marking period theme deals with compassion and sacrifice.  Here are the essential questions.  Remember, so far, we have read "A & P," by John Updike, and "The Yellow Wallpaper," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

1) How can perspective affect the reader's understanding of compassion and/or sacrifice?  
2) What motivates characters/individuals to be (or not to be) compassionate and/or to sacrifice?  
3) When characters/individuals decide to be (or not to be) compassionate and/or to sacrifice, what internal and/or external conflicts might they face?  
4) What are the outcomes of acts of compassion and/or sacrifice?  
5) How are characters/individuals ultimately affected by compassion and/or sacrifice?

Macbeth Word Trace: In Class Today

Choose a word: good, blood/bloody, time, say, fear, hand(s), great, see, sleep, man, thought, look, eyes, heart, night, death, live, nature, love, etc.

Use a concordance (http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/concordance/)  to find every instance in which the word is used in Macbeth.  Reread those scenes.  

 Analyze the word in context.  How does the use of the word connect to the themes of the play?  What is being communicated?

NaNoWriMo

It's National Novel Writing Month.  Here's a link:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8BdGvczaryXWWpYOUI4Q2F3dU0/view