Macbeth Character & Themes: Engaging Hour-Long Lesson

An hour long engaging lesson in which students are introduced to the main characters and themes in Macbeth. Through individual and group work, students will practise reading skills - in particular comprehension, inference and summarising - and collaborate with each other to share information that they have gleaned from profiles about the key characters in the play.

Students will also be shown images representing Macbeth and prompted to infer themes they think will be evident in the play.

Learning Objective: Get to know the main characters and themes in Macbeth.

Learning Outcomes:

• Find and highlight key information about your character in the play.
• Re-write information about your character and share it with others in your own words.
• Question others about their characters and make connections between different characters.

Lesson Outline:
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Starter: Students look at five images representing Macbeth and infer themes from them.
Activity one: Students are assigned a character from Macbeth. They read the information sheet and take bullet points notes in their graphic organiser.
Activity two: Students circulate around the room swapping facts until they have completed all five character profiles.
Plenary: Mini quiz based on the characters in the lesson.

This lesson contains a 16-slide PowerPoint and five printable character profiles.

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