Macbeth Motif Paper

You are to write a paper tracing Shakespeare’s use of one motif (a minor recurrent theme or pattern of imagery)) in relation to the play’s characters, themes and structure. Your essay will not be due until after the completion of the play but, as soon as you can, select your motif from those below and inform me. Then you can begin focusing on your motif as we read the play. The essay should follow the basic format (introduction, body, conclusion), and it should be approximately two to three pages. Remember to use proper verse quotation format (see website) and to cite the play as follows: I. iii, 3-5 (not Act 1, Scene 3, lines 3-5).

Motifs

• Feasting/drinking
• Water/cleansing
• Disease/madness
• Salvation/redemption
• Manhood/womanhood
• Dissembling/equivocation
• Animals/beasts
• Fear/bravery
• Clothing
• Taunting
• Young/old
• Innocence/corruption
• Nurturing
• Gold/golden
• Reversal
• Paralysis/Action
• Appearances
• Planting/growth
• Incantations
• Dark/light
• Good/evil
• Blood
• Stars/heavens
• Sleep
• War
• Serpents
• Birds
• Disorder
• Family
• Disloyalty/betrayal
• Temptation
• Kingship
• Fortune
• Murder
• Honor
• Hospitality
• Fire
• Vacillation
• Ambition
• Devils/angels
• Hands/eyes
• Heaven/hell
• Sight/blindness

UPDATE: The Motif Paper has been changed to a Motif Presentation, to be presented on March 23 and 25. 

History Research Project Instructions

PROJECT INSTRUCTIONS: Part One

1. Select your topic—do preliminary checking on topic "viability" & get my approval.
2. Search for sources—begin to compile a research bibliography.
3. Submit your preliminary bibliography & receive feedback.
4. Acquire required print sources. If you have trouble about books, see me.
5. Make a list of questions you want/need answered during your research. These questions will frame your research & guide your note-taking and later final "product creation."
6. BEGIN ACTUAL RESEARCH—if already acquired, do book sources first [time sensitive]—read and take notes by source.
7. As you finish using/checking a source, do the following: 
1. Take down necessary bibliographic information info using MLA style guide format;
2. Write a short entry/description of source's value, its strengths and/or weaknesses—this is for your "annotated bibliography."
8. As you do your research-by-source: 
1. Check off the questions for which you find answers—attach a copy of your checked questions to each source;
2. Seek to confirm all information's accuracy—don't rely on a single source for your answers/facts;
3. Include page numbers for location of specific facts and quotations.
9. After you finish with or cannot work with print sources at that moment, shift over to internet sources, and follow the same note-taking protocols.
10. As your note-taking progresses, be thinking about
1. Creating a thesis regarding your research, and
2. How you want to present your information—what form will your product take..............
11. STAY TUNED FOR MORE TO COME.........DUE DATES ARE FORTHCOMING...................