Grade 9 Macbeth, Malcolm, and Macduff Kingship Act 4 Scene 3 Lesson

This lesson covers key Jacobean context, an audience’s expectations, extensive analysis and questioning of the scene and possible extracts, key quotes with grade 9 analysis notes, critical theorists and relevant quotes surrounding gender, thoughtful extensive analysis on gender expectations and context, as well as a writing frame to support all students.

Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as is an option for debate, a second writing question template, and opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work.

Quote analysis for:

• I grant him bloody, Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful, Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin That has a name
• our country sinks beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds
• Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?
• A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressèd brain

Suitable for example questions such as:

• Starting with this extract, how is Kingship presented?
• How are Malcolm and Macduff presented as leaders?
• How is Malcolm presented in the play?
• How does Shakespeare present corruption?