1. 'Macbeth' Act 1
Starter Read through the handout you have been given. Make at least 6 bullet points listing what you learn about the context.

2. Lesson Objectives Content
To understand the social and historical context for 'Macbeth'
To form initial opinions on Lady Macbeth and Macbeth
To identify and analyze the use of language
Skill
To examine how the context shapes and forms the audience's opinions on the two main characters
Long term plan: to assess how Macbeth is portrayed as a tragic character.

3. Act 1 Scene 1
What effect does the pathetic fallacy create? Pathetic fallacy: when the weather links into how a character is feeling, or when the weather creates a certain atmosphere. Challenge: What does: "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" foreshadow? What else is foreshadowed in the opening scene?

4. Act 1 Scene 2 Read through the scene.
How is Macbeth represented in this extract:
"Yes, as sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.
If I say sooth, I must report they were
As cannons overcharged with double cracks,
So they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe.
Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,
Or memorize another Golgotha,"
Challenge: Identify a language feature used and examine how it represents Macbeth.

5. Act 1 Scene 3
How would the audience react to The Witches? Consider the context!
The Third Witch says "Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none" to Banquo. What do you think this means?
How has Shakespeare represented Macbeth's feelings here:
(aside) This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill,
Why hath it given me earnest of success,
Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor.
If good, why do I yield to that suggestion
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
Against the use of nature? Present fears
Are less than horrible imaginings.
Challenger: Consider how the audience would react to this being an aside

6. Act 1 Scene 4 (aside) The prince of Cumberland! That is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap,
For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires;
Let not light see my black and deep desires.
The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be
Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
How are Macbeth's thoughts and feelings represented here?
How would the audience react to Macbeth here?

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8. 'Macbeth' Act 2
Starter – So far Macbeth has been represented as a heroic figure. Which of these do you think will be Macbeth's hamartia? Weakness Love ambition Hamartia - A fatal flaw for a character that leads to their downfall. Challenge: Find evidence from Act 1 to support your interpretation.

9. Lesson Objectives Content
To assess the actions of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth
To examine the character of Macbeth
To identify and analyze the use of language
Skill
To analyze the representation of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in Act 1 and 2
Long term plan: to assess how Macbeth is portrayed as a tragic character.

10. Act 1 Scene 5 – Slide 1
How do you think the audience would view Lady Macbeth? How do you think the audience would view the relationship between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth? Challenge: Look like th' innocent flower, But be the serpent under ’t. What is the significance of this quotation?

11. Act 1 Scene 5 – Slide 2 How is Lady Macbeth represented here?
The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood. Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature’s mischief. Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark To cry “Hold, hold!”
How is Lady Macbeth represented here?
Find the following to support your interpretation:
Foreshadowing
Metaphor
Alliteration
Personification
Negative imagery
Sibilance

12. Act 1 Scene 5 – Slide 2 How is Lady Macbeth represented here?
The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood. Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature’s mischief. Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark To cry “Hold, hold!”
How is Lady Macbeth represented here?
Find the following to support your interpretation:
Foreshadowing
Metaphor
Alliteration
Personification
Negative imagery
Sibilance

13. Act 1 Scene 6
How does King Duncan treat Lady Macbeth? Why is this significant? How does this link to the context?

14. Act 1 Scene 7
Make a list of all the ways Lady Macbeth is trying to persuade/manipulate Macbeth. Challenge: Do you think Macbeth is being manipulative or persuasive? Why?

15. Act 1
Final question: Would a modern audience view Lady Macbeth differently to a Shakespearean audience?

16. To what extent do you think Macbeth wants to murder King Duncan?
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressèd brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.
Thou marshall’st me the way that I was going,
And such an instrument I was to use.
Mine eyes are made the fools o' th' other senses,
Or else worth all the rest. I see thee still,
And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Which was not so before. There’s no such thing.
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one half-world
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtained sleep. Witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate’s offerings, and withered murder,
Alarumed by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl’s his watch, thus with his stealthy pace,
With Tarquin’s ravishing strides, towards his design
Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,
And take the present horror from the time,
Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives.
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.
I go, and it is done. The bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
Act 2 Scene 1
Use the highlighted parts of the text to help you answer the following question:
To what extent do you think Macbeth wants to murder King Duncan?

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18. 'Macbeth' Act 2 and 3
At this stage of the play, who do you think is more powerful: Lady Macbeth Macbeth Use evidence from Act 1 and Act 2 to support your idea Challenge: Do you think a modern audience views the characters differently to a Shakespearean one?

19. Lesson Objectives Content
To assess the change in character for Macbeth
To examine Macbeth's downfall
To identify and analyze the use of language
Skill
To analyze the actions and speech of Macbeth
Long term plan: to assess how Macbeth is portrayed as a tragic character.

20. Act 2 Scene 2
Do you think it's significant that Macbeth cannot say "Amen"? Why?
How do Lady Macbeth and Macbeth interact in this Scene? How do you think the audience would respond to this?
Challenge:
Macbeth: What hands are here? Ha! They pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand?
Lady Macbeth: My hands are of your color, but I shame
To wear a heart so white.

21. Act 2 Scene 3
Does the Scene begin the way you expected it to? How do you think an audience would respond to the opening?
What is significant about the way Macbeth speaks? Consider the language and structure.
Act 2 Scene 4
Who are the key suspects for King Duncan's murder?
How do the characters feel towards Macbeth?
Challenge: Do you think Shakespeare wrote Lady Macbeth to challenge the accepted notion of femininity? Use evidence from this Scene to support your idea.

22. Act 3 Scene 1
How does Macbeth speak to the Murderers? What does this reveal about him?
What is significant about Banquo's speech at the beginning of the Scene?
Challenge: What is revealed about Macbeth's character in his soliloquy which begins "To be thus is nothing"
Act 3 Scene 2
What does this reveal about Lady Macbeth: "'Tis safer to be that which we destroy than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy."
What does this reveal about Macbeth's character: "We have scorched the snake, not killed it."
What does Macbeth reveal about his mindset?
Act 3 Scene 3
How is tension created in this Scene?

23. Act 3 Scene 4
Find a quotation from Lady Macbeth that reveals she is trying to calm the guests. Why do you think she does this?
What is Macbeth’s response to Lady Macbeth questioning whether he is a man? What does this reveal about Macbeth?
Where have minor sentences been used? What do they tell the audience about how Macbeth is feeling?
What does Macbeth say the ghost should take the form of? Why do you think he says this?
What does Macbeth say at the end about Lady Macbeth? What does this tell us about the flaw of Macbeth?
Challenge: How could this scene link into Macbeth’s hamartia?

24. Act 3 Scene 5
How is pathetic fallacy used at the beginning of the Scene?
How is Hecate represented? How do you think the audience would view her?
Challenge: The Witches are represented as being omniscient – do you think this portrays them positively or negatively?
Omniscient – all seeing and all knowing
Act 3 Scene 6
How do the Lord and Lennox view Macbeth?
What do they reveal about King Duncan's sons? What does this foreshadow?

25. Lesson Objectives Content
To assess the change in character for Macbeth
To examine Macbeth's downfall
To identify and analyze the use of language
Skill
To analyze the actions and speech of Macbeth
Do you think the way the audience view Macbeth has changed in Act 3? Why?

26. Macbeth's hamartia
Point: Explain in one sentence what you think Macbeth's hamartia is. Evidence: Quotation Explanation: Explain how the quotation supports your interpretation Keyword: Pick out a keyword in the quotation and examine the effect of it Language Feature: Identify a language feature in the quotation (or another one) and explain how it justifies your interpretation Structure: Analyze how the structure (sentence types/rhyming/punctuation) can link in to your interpretation Different interpretation: Examine another potential hamartia for Macbeth

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28. 'Macbeth' Act 4
Act 3 Scene 4
Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,
The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger;
Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
Shall never tremble. Or be alive again,
And dare me to the desert with thy sword.
If trembling I inhabit then, protest me
The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow!
Unreal mockery, hence!
How does Macbeth feel about the Ghost of Banquo here?
What literary devices have been used to convey Macbeth's emotions?
Challenge: How does Macbeth change within this Scene? What does that reveal about his character?

29. Lesson Objectives Content
To assess the change in character for Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
To examine how tension is being created
To identify and analyze the use of language
Skill
To begin to plan towards tomorrow's essay plan
Long term plan: to assess how Macbeth is portrayed as a tragic character.

30. Writing an analytical paragraph
Read through the paragraph you have been given. Highlight/underline where this student has done the following: Point: Explain in one sentence what you think Macbeth's hamartia is. Evidence: Quotation Explanation: Explain how the quotation supports your interpretation Keyword: Pick out a keyword in the quotation and examine the effect of it Language Feature: Identify a language feature in the quotation (or another one) and explain how it justifies your interpretation Structure: Analyze how the structure (sentence types/rhyming/punctuation) can link in to your interpretation Different interpretation: Examine another potential hamartia for Macbeth Challenge: How do you think this paragraph could be improved?

31. How has Macbeth been represented in Act 3 Scene 4?
Point: Explain in one sentence what you think Macbeth's hamartia is. Evidence: Quotation Explanation: Explain how the quotation supports your interpretation Keyword: Pick out a keyword in the quotation and examine the effect of it Language Feature: Identify a language feature in the quotation (or another one) and explain how it justifies your interpretation Structure: Analyze how the structure (sentence types/rhyming/punctuation) can link in to your interpretation Different interpretation: Examine another potential hamartia for Macbeth Challenge: Examine how you think Macbeth has changed in Act 3 Scene 4.

32. Read through your partner's work and highlight/underline where they have done each of these:
Point: Explain in one sentence what you think Macbeth's hamartia is. Evidence: Quotation Explanation: Explain how the quotation supports your interpretation Keyword: Pick out a keyword in the quotation and examine the effect of it Language Feature: Identify a language feature in the quotation (or another one) and explain how it justifies your interpretation Structure: Analyze how the structure (sentence types/rhyming/punctuation) can link in to your interpretation Different interpretation: Examine another potential hamartia for Macbeth Then give them a strength and improvement S -

33. Complete your response
Point: Explain in one sentence what you think Macbeth's hamartia is. Evidence: Quotation Explanation: Explain how the quotation supports your interpretation Keyword: Pick out a keyword in the quotation and examine the effect of it Language Feature: Identify a language feature in the quotation (or another one) and explain how it justifies your interpretation Structure: Analyze how the structure (sentence types/rhyming/punctuation) can link in to your interpretation Different interpretation: Examine another potential hamartia for Macbeth Challenge: Examine how you think Macbeth has changed in Act 3 Scene 4.

34. Act 4 Scene 1
How are The Witches represented in this scene?
How is Macbeth represented here? What does his speech reveal about his character?
Act 4 Scene 2
How are Lady Macduff and her Son represented? How do you think the audience would view them? Consider the social and historical context!
How do the Murderers actions reflect on Macbeth?
Act 4 Scene 3
This Scene opens near King Edward's palace – why is this significant?
To what extent can it be argued that Macduff is the hero of the play in the eyes of the audience?

35. Homework
Research the conventions of a Greek Tragedy for tomorrow's lesson.

36. Lesson Objectives Content
To assess the change in character for Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
To examine how tension is being created
To identify and analyze the use of language
Skill
To begin to plan towards tomorrow's essay plan
What has been foreshadowed in this Act?

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38. 'Macbeth' Act 5
List the conventions of a Greek Tragedy. Challenge: To what extent does 'Macbeth' follow the traditional conventions of a Greek Tragedy?

39. Lesson Objectives Content
To assess the change in character for Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
To identify and analyze the use of language
Skill
To formulate ideas and interpretations for the essay question
Long term plan: to assess how Macbeth is portrayed as a tragic character.

40. 'Macbeth' Act 5 Scene 1 Key Quotations to analyze:
Out, damned spot! Out, I say!—One, two. Why, then, ’tis time to do ’t. Hell is murky!—Fie, my lord, fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?—Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him.
The thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now?
Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, Oh, Oh!
To bed, to bed. There’s knocking at the gate. Come, come, come, come. Give me your hand. What’s done cannot be undone.—To bed, to bed, to bed!

41. Act 5 Scene 2
Analyze how tension is created in this Scene
Act 5 Scene 3
How does Macbeth react to the Servant? What does this reveal about his character?
How does Macbeth speak to the Doctor about Lady Macbeth? What does this reveal about Macbeth's character?
Scene 4 and 5
How is tension created in Act 5 Scene 4?
Why do you think Shakespeare alternates between both sets of characters? What effect would this have on the audience?
How is Macbeth's character represented? Do you think the audience are expecting his demise?
Scene 6, 7 and 8
To what extent does Macbeth's demise link to the conventions of a Greek tragedy?

42. How is Macbeth portrayed as a tragic character?
Macbeth's representation as a strong hero
Throughout the play