Macbeth: Lessons on Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's relationship (high ability)

This is designed as a double lesson or series of lessons where you give students the chance to explore the theme themselves first and then reveal lots of possible ideas that they may or may not have come up with.

This is how I use these lessons: Give students the planning sheet at the beginning and students use this throughout to make their notes. This, along with the essay that they produce, becomes a revision resource.

Lesson 1:

Spend the first 5 minutes completing starter.
Then 10 minutes exploring contextual factors that link to this theme.
Students then spend 5 minutes writing their opening argument (this may need a full lesson of teaching beforehand. See my lesson on creating introductions/thesis statements).
Allow students to spend 15/20 minutes planning for the question. This can be independent, pairs or groups.
Share ideas at the end and have students use a different coloured pen to show where they have improved or added ideas.
Lesson 2:

Give students 5 minutes to reread plan from lesson.
20 minutes where you teach the ideas that they might have come up with or may not have.
Students spend the rest of the lesson writing the essay.
Give essay to finish as homework.
Lesson 3: Feedback

This lesson comes perhaps a week later. See feedback lesson created for this.