Play the role of a teacher who is helping students understand Macbeth. You'll choose one scene from the play and create 12 to 18 annotations, or explanatory notes, to explain the meanings of
words and figurative language and to analyze the poetic structure. Then you'll write one or two
paragraphs explaining how Shakespeare's language supports the tone and character
development in the scene.
This writing assignment will focus on the following skills:
Using a dictionary, thesaurus, and etymology dictionary
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Recognizing and explaining figurative language
Analyzing poetic structure
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Analyzing how language affects meaning

Hurry 20 mins left! study the timeline of russian history, and read the passage from chapter 1 of animal farm. "is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings? only get rid of man, and the produce of our labour would be our own. almost overnight we could become rich and free. what then must we do? why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race! that is my message to you, comrades: rebellion! " which event most likely influenced the writing of this passage? the 1905 massacre of people who were protesting their poor living conditions the 1917 bolshevik revolution, which was inspired by the ideals of lenin the development of the union of soviet socialist republics by lenin in 1922 the collectivization of agriculture by the communist party in russia in 1928