Macbeth Act 1 Scene 1 Analysis Lesson

Fully differentiated with essay practice included. This lesson covers key context, an audience and reader’s expectations and reactions, writing a thesis statement, extensive analysis and questioning of key ideas, key quotes with grade 9 analysis notes, as well as a writing frame to support all students.

Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as is an option for class conversations, and opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work.

Quotes include:
“fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.”
“A DESERT PLACE.
Thunder and lightening. Enter three witches”
“When the battle’s lost and won”

Works towards:
Starting with this extract, explain how Shakespeare presents the Witches as mysterious and frightening.