Macbeth Act 1 vocabulary

an open field, area of uncultivated land

• Heath

• Minion

• Plight

• Brandish

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the meaning of Valor?

• Cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, especially in politics

• Great courage in the face of danger, especially in battle

• A medieval knightly system with its religious, moral and social code

• Deliberately being deceitful or misleading

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which of these is lavish?

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The word that best defines Elie Wiesel's experience in Auschwitz would be

• Minion

• Plight

• Lavish

• Brandish

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

To wave ---especially a weapon

• Execution

• Brandish

• Plight

• Dismayed

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

to feel discouraged or disheartened

• Lavish

• Brandish

• Execution

• Dismayed

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The Flying monkeys are _________to the wicked Witch.

• Heath

• Brandish

• Minions

• Lavish

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

the carrying out or putting into effect of a plan, order, or course of action.

• execution

• brandish

• lavish

• minion

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The play Macbeth was written by

• William Shakespeare

• Edgar Allen Poe

• Mary Shelley

• Stephen King

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

If Shakespeare didn't have a word to express what he wanted to say, he . . .

• made up a new one!

• Googled it.

• consulted the only dictionary in town.

• asked his wife.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4