What an afternoon with year 8 Pioneer! We headed over to use the seminar tables in the music room and had a full session of discussion using the Socratic Seminar protocol. Amazing contributions from the whole class – focussed, attentive, respectful.

And the session was so successful because of the hard work they’ve been putting in leading up to it, and being persistent when challenging themselves to investigate and understand Shakespeare’s language.

We explored 3 questions:

1. Was Macbeth’s imaginary dagger an invitation or a warning?
2. Was Macbeth free to choose whether to kill Duncan?
3. Was the murder of Duncan Macbeth’s peripeteia?

Take a look at a brief moment from this afternoon.