“Brave New World, Baby”

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So, we start today with The Tempest, whilst I grade your Macbeth essays. First period will plan a 10 minute presentation for the Italians on Macbeth to the theme of What Macbeth tells us about the 21st century. Third period will write a 300 word blog post on this question: What is an educated person? What are the benefits of education and what are the drawbacks. Tell a short anecdote in your answer.

Then, we’ll watch the 1960 version of The Tempest.

HW: 1st period–Using the following 2 themes: 1)    Ambition is good, too much is very bad. 2)  Our current media is similar to the superstition of the witches in that both lead you to believe untrue things.  Prepare a 300 word description of how these themes relate to your lives and to current events that our friends the Italians might be aware of.