1. Macbeth Learning Objective
Understand how to analyse an extract from Macbeth
Understand Shakespeare’s use of imagery, its connotations and effects.

2. Act 1 Scene 1 quiz Where do the witches plan to meet Macbeth?
In his castle
In the graveyard
On the battlefield
On the heath
Complete the quote: ‘Fair is ______ and foul is _____.’
When do the witches say they will meet again?
When Macbeth is crowned king
When the moon is eclipsed
When all the trees shed their leaves
When the battle is over
What country serves as the setting for Macbeth?
What is the weather like in the opening scene?
Cold and icy
Hot and humid
Thunder and lightening
Warm and calm

3. Act 1 Scene 2 quiz What does the captain think of Macbeth?
that he is weak
that he is in under the control of witches
that he is brave
that he is ‘under the thumb’
Complete these quotes:
‘his brandished steel / which smoked with bloody ______.’
‘he unseamed him from the ____ to the th’chaps’
‘So they (Macbeth and Banquo) doubly redoubled strokes upon the ___.’

4. Act 1 Scene 3 quiz
Banquo is told by the witches that he will be ____ and ____ than Macbeth
richer and poorer
fatter and thinner
sadder and happier
greater and lesser
The witches do NOT address Macbeth by this title:
King
Thane of Cawdor
Thane of Glamis
Your Highness
What gruesome item does one of the witches keep as a charm?
A shrunken head
A pilot’s thumb
A human toe
Human teeth strung on a thread and worn as a necklace
True or False: Banquo is told that he will one day be king, but his sons will not

5. Macbeth Learning Objective
Understand how to analyse an extract from Macbeth
Understand Shakespeare’s use of imagery, its connotations and effects.

6. Macbeth’s Act 1 Scene 4 aside
MACBETH (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.

7. Macbeth’s Act 1 Scene 4 aside
MACBETH (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.
Pick an image
Draw a representation of that image
Mind map all the possible connotations of that image
Branch out from your connotations for further implications

8. like stars shall shine /eg
nobleness
like stars shall shine /
On all deservers
life…
centre of universe
stars shine
horoscopes guidance
light
leading

9. Feedback ‘that is a step on which I must fall down’ ‘Or else o’erleap’
Star, hide your fires
‘My black and deep desires’
‘Eye wink at the hand’

10. Plenary Think - pair - share
Why did Shakespeare use such rich imagery in his plays?

11. Homework
Must: Find another image from the play and visually represent it.
Should: List the connotations of that image
Could: Write a sentence/paragraph that starts: Shakespeare has used this image at this point in the play because…

12. Macbeth Learning Objective
Understand how to analyse an extract from Macbeth
Understand Shakespeare’s use of imagery, its connotations and effects.