Y11 Macbeth revision posters
Hi Y11 Here are the revision posters for Macbeth you wanted to me to put on the blog. I’ve also tidied up the notes we made in class: Advertisements
Hi Y11 Here are the revision posters for Macbeth you wanted to me to put on the blog. I’ve also tidied up the notes we made in class: Advertisements
Hi Year 11 Here are the Macbeth plans you produced in our revision session today. We responded to these two questions: Macbeth’s ‘cannot taint with fear’ suggests fear is something that physically affects you (also perhaps “I have forgotten the taste of fear”). Fear is both intangible – cannot be grasped – (Banquo, for example… Continue reading Y11: Macbeth revision posters
Here are the slides we used and produced in the lessons on Thursday. First the question. Alongside this is a possible way of structuring your response. It’s one way, not THE way. Some of you might find this too restrictive; others like it because it has a neat division between extract and whole: The first thing… Continue reading Y11: Macbeth revision – exam writing slides
Hi Year 11 Here are some key quotes on Macbeth just in case you can’t access them on dropbox or weren’t in the lesson. Remember, I’ve not included some of the common ones (unsex me here, is this a dagger, will these hands ne’er be clean, fair is foul, so foul and fair a day etc… Continue reading Y11 Macbeth key quotes
Last week, we returned to Macbeth and decided to read some key scenes from act 5 for two reasons: firstly, we didn’t do this enough justice first time round (we ran out of time) and secondly it’s a good way to revise the play because we are constantly thinking back to how these scenes link… Continue reading Y11 Return to Macbeth – Act 5 Scenes 2 and 3
With added pupil posters! We’re all getting a bit excited with AO3 in Macbeth. Quite rightly, we’re focussing on the presentation of women – Lady Macbeth fails at first to conform to the model of the subservient woman and like pretty much all of Shakespeare’s women exhibits a strong sense of independence which is ultimately contained… Continue reading “Something wicked this way comes” – Macbeth and the Gothic tradition
Here are the examples we went through in class today (thank you to everyone for letting me share your work):