Macbeth | XP East

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:

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

Take a look at a brief moment from this afternoon.

TASK:

Complete a QUOTATION EXPLOSION as we have previously practiced in class on the following quotation from act 1 scene 5″

“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t” – Lady Macbeth

You have creative freedom on this – do it in your books, on a device, use free mind-mapping online.

DUE DATE:

Wednesday 30th January

WAGOLL:

Does yours look like this? If it does, then you’re probably working at 3.0+ for WORK HARD.

SUPPORT:

Click here to watch a video guide to help.

CHALLENGE:

Want to go above and beyond and EXTEND YOUR LEARNING FURTHER? You could turn your notes into a paragraph of analysis about how Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth’s manipulation of Macbeth.