Learning Objective: Explore how Garland presents ideas about inner conflict
Before this lesson students ought to have read and studied the context of this poem.
Great for middle sets who need to understand how to write clear responses to texts.
This is a flip learning document that details the following for each act:
structure
short summary
keywords
focus scenes
Students are to use the document in class or for homework and take guided notes after studying an act.
This document works best for higher achieves.
Macbeth Act 1
(Structure) The Exposition- whereby the audience find out important back ground information about the plot. Or is the equilibrium disturbed?
You will need to take notes on:
How the theme of superstition is evidenced
The way Macbeth is presented as ‘fair’ and ‘foul’ simultaneously
The way Lady Macbeth is presented as an unconventional Jacobean woman
What you think Shakespeare’s message may have been in this Act