1. Students started by writing a few notes that were on the board to point out important parts of Act two.
2. We began reading the first scene with me reading out the play parts and stopping to explain what its meaning is. I asked several questions of students to comprehend their understanding.
3. We stopped at the end of each scene to answer the questions together. Some of the interesting things today was the reality that even after Macbeth told everyone the guards must have killed Duncan because they had his blood on them and the daggers, Banquo says they will gather when they have calmed down to discuss what has happened and seek out the culprit. Do you beleive he thought then that Macbeth had committed the murder? Why would he want to find out more about who actually did it when Macbeth said he had killed the culprits? It led to a good discussion.

Below is the Dagger scene with the great actor, Sir Ian McKellen.

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