Macbeth (Teacher Pack)

Switch your students onto Shakespeare's Macbeth (and save countless hours of precious preparation time in the process!) with this comprehensive, innovative and engaging pack of resources.

The Macbeth (Teacher Pack) includes:

1. Teacher Guide (67-page PDF)
   • Unit Overview
   • Learning Goal
   • Suggested Lesson Outline
   • Teacher Answer Guide to Student Booklet - see yellow
   • Analytical Essay writing/Complete Sample Essay
2. Teaching Presentation (49-slide  PPT/KEY) 
   • Discussion starter and a Taste of Macbeth
   • Historical, Social and Cultural context
   • Macbeth's Scotland
   • Reading the Play - the prophecies
   • Analysing a soliloquy
   • Characters in the play
   • Themes in the play
   • Approaching the essay question - analytical essay structure, step-by-step strategy to analytical essay responses (including sample responses)
3. Student Booklet (62-page PDF/DOC):
   
   • Pre-reading activities
   • Shakespearean Tragedy
   • Historical, Social and Cultural Context
   • Reading the play:
   • The Prophecies
   • A Glossary of Devices
   • How to analyse aesthetic devices
   • Themes in the Play
   • Act-by-Act Summaries and differentiated thinking activities
   • Writing a PEE+EEL paragraph
   • After reading the play:
   • Analysing a soliloquy (including Extension)
   • Character activities
   • Silent Discussion - as preparation to begin examining themes
   • Themes - Thinking Through activities - including 'Give One, Get One'
   • Analytical Essay writing:
   • Analytical essay structure
   • Approaching the question - strategy

Unit duration: 35+ lessons (including Analytical Essay assessment task)

Subject area coverage: English (middle/senior school)

Features

• Electronic/printable files
• Professionally designed
• Highly visual and engaging
• Suited to all learners
• Crisp, clean layouts
• For whole class, group work and individual learning