Macbeth 'I have done the deed'

Newly revised A lesson pack of materials on Macbeth: ‘I have done the deed’ Act 2 Scene 2

The pack has four activities all with answer keys included.

Three of the materials - the embedded questions worksheets on Act 2 Scene2, the test yourself quiz multiple choice and the which soliloquy worksheet can be sent to your students online as a pack of three activities. They can self-mark the quiz and which soliloquy, and the teacher can mark the qeustions as very detailed answers are given to the questions on Act 2 Scene 2.

The powerpoint is a teaching powerpoint, but can be used as a distance learning material if you send it online to your students to self-study.

Starter activity: A 20 question multiple choice quiz testing overall knowledge of the play. Answer key included for this quiz. Can therefore be used to self-mark.

• Main task: The slideshow on Act 2 Scene 2 tracks through the key scene where Macbeth has ‘done the deed’ but brought the daggers back with him. Selected slides can be used or printed off. The slideshow has plenty of questions and answers are included. The answers can be held back until after answering (verbal or written answers) by selecting animations and then clicking the mouse so that the answer floats in.

OR Main task: Analyzing Macbeth’s Bloody Dagger Soliloquy with questions embedded in the text. Answer key now included for this.

• Extension Task: A 10 question ‘which soliloquy’ quiz and a copy separately of worksheets of Macbeth’s five main soliloquies- Answer key also now included for this.

Act 1 Scene 111 ‘Two truths are told’
Act 1 Scene 7 'If it were done when ‘tis done’
Act 2 Scene 1 ‘Is this a dagger which I see before me’
Act 3 Scene 1 ‘To be thus is nothing’;
Act 5 Scene 5 ‘She should have died hereafter’

I have included a taster of a few randomly chosen slides from the Act 2 Scene 2 powerpoint/slideshow…