Year 8 Potion Project OBJ: to understand what product you will create, and the skills and understanding it will show

Potion project English You have analysed the language in Macbeth’s soliloquy, and identified the reasons he states for and against killing King Duncan. You have an understanding of metaphorical language and you have compared the soliloquy with a poem. Geography You will examine the physical processes in action in the Coastal Zone including weathering, erosion, transportation and deposition. You will also investigate the different methods of protecting the coastline and the issues this can cause for communities.

Potion project Product: One jam jar representing the arguments either for and against killing King Duncan, using elements from the Scottish coastline. It will be displayed as if in an apothecary’s laboratory – like a potion!

Potion project Essential questions: What are the arguments for and against killing Duncan? How are the emotions shown in the soliloquy? How would you represent these arguments metaphorically? What can I use from the coastline of Scotland to represent them?

Potion project One week of Geography skills. OBJ: to examine the physical processes in action in the Coastal Zone including weathering, erosion, transportation and deposition. To investigate the different methods of protecting the coastline and the issues this can cause for communities.

Potion project Elements of the product: Jar Items from the coastline Quotations from the soliloquy Label explaining my choices, and a list of the contents in the style of a spell

Potion project Items from the coastline: One big pebble, two small One crab claw Sand One fishing net Quotations: “so clear in his great office” “trammel up the consequences” “kinsman….subject” Is this for or against killing Duncan?

Potion project Why have I used these items to represent the argument from the soliloquy? A large rock, next to two small ones: could represent….? A crab claw: could represent….? A fishing net: could represent…?

Potion project What are the differences between this piece of writing and how you might write a normal explanation of the contents of the jar? Sentence length… Word placement…

Potion project WITCH. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the caldron boil and bake; Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting, Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing,— For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

Potion project Explanation of what each item represents and why you have used it – this shows you understand your metaphors.