Dear Students:


I hope you are enjoying the longer days and brighter days of Seattle at this time of year. It is a pretty wonderful place to be.


We had a beautiful ceremony for my mother this past weekend, so I feel very at peace.
If you have never heard Andrew Lloyd Webber's Pie Jesu, please listen:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0EVZDEZmOk


I think it is one of the most beautiful example's of Western classical music ever created.
It was sung at my mother's ceremony.


This week, our focus is close reading of Macbeth. Tomorrow in class, I am going to ask you to give an example of a passage you have annotated and to be able to explain why you annotated it.


Please read up to scene 4 of Act 2 for Tuesday.


Who seems to be in charge, here - Lady Macbeth or Macbeth?
What adjective would you use to describe each of them and why?
Josh and Jeeah spoke about how they are beginning to see a change in Macbeth. Is he still changing? In what ways?




Our second focus is vocabulary.


25 words with definitions sent to me on Thursday, please.


See you tomorrow.