1. Objective: to explore the links between characters and compare their situations through debate. When have you been in a difficult situation? Sum it up on your post it note, but be prepared to share it so keep it clean! Whose situation is the worst? How can we make this judgement?

2. Objective: to explore the links between characters and compare their situations through debate. Whose circumstances are most difficult?

3. Objective: to explore the links between characters and compare their situations through debate. Can we ask better questions? C Grade CriteriaQuestions to ask Clear understanding of the writer’s ideas Appropriate quotations selectedHow can you prove that your opinion is right? Clear understanding of linguistic techniques (eg metaphors) Clear understanding of the ways that the texts link In what way is this more difficult than [character name] situation? Clear understanding of the context of the different texts Unpicks quotes thoroughly using PEEEL

4. Objective: to explore the links between characters and compare their situations through debate. What are the questions that we planned for our debate? C Grade CriteriaQuestions to ask Clear understanding of the writer’s ideasHow does the writer put the characters into difficult circumstances? Appropriate quotations selectedHow can you prove that your opinion is right? Clear understanding of linguistic techniques (eg metaphors) How does the linguistic technique show that the person is in difficult circumstances? Clear understanding of the ways that the texts link In what way is this more difficult than [character name] situation? Clear understanding of the context of the different texts How does this situation have an impact on society at the time? Unpicks quotes thoroughly using PEEELWhat is the key word in the quotation? What meaning does this key word have?

5. Objective: to explore the links between characters and compare their situations through debate. Whose circumstances are most difficult? Prepare your part of the debate, using the questions to ensure that you win.

6. Objective: to explore the links between characters and compare their situations through debate. C Grade Marking Criteria Band 4 Confident and Assured 25-32  Clear understanding of the writer’s ideas  Appropriate quotations selected  Clear understanding of linguistic techniques (eg metaphors)  Clear understanding of the ways that the texts link  Clear understanding of the context of the different texts  Unpicks quotes thoroughly using PEEEL Now what can you add to your draft PEEEL paragraphs?

7. 1.Pick the best quotation. 2.Note down the key meanings and effects in your quotation. 3.Add a comment about how the audience at the time would have reacted. Both characters lack control in the situation Main link “Thou marshall’st me the way I was going”. Dagger leading him. He has no choice. Audience would have been shocked and appalled at the treason he’s committing. Shakespeare “Ropes on the back of my hands I could strangle with” She is a puppet being controlled. She’s angry. You could say that she is in her own prison, so she’s got some control. A Shakespearean audience would have felt that she has no right to be angry at the man and would have felt shocked at her behaviour. Poetry

8. Objective: to explore the links between characters and compare their situations through debate. C Grade Marking Criteria Band 4 Confi dent and Assur ed 25-32  Clear understanding of the writer’s ideas  Appropriate quotations selected  Clear understanding of linguistic techniques (eg metaphors)  Clear understanding of the ways that the texts link  Clear understanding of the context of the different texts  Unpicks quotes thoroughly using PEEEL In Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ and Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Havisham’, characters experience difficult circumstances because they both lack control in situations. Firstly, Shakespeare uses personification, “Thou marshall’st me the way I was going”. This shows that the dagger leading him and he is being manipulated by it. The personification suggests that Macbeth is beginning to lose his mind, further suggesting that he has no control over himself. The audience would have been shocked and appalled at the treason he’s committing. At the time that the play was set, Macbeth ‘losing control’ would have seemed strange and un-masculine to the audience. To add to this, Duffy uses the metaphor “Ropes on the back of my hands I could strangle with” to show that Havisham is experiencing difficult circumstances and she’s losing control.