Year 9 Scheme: Macbeth (Can be used as GCSE Prep)

A 7-week scheme to teach ‘Macbeth’ (Shakespeare) to a Year 9 English class.

In this scheme I’ve included:

• a very basic SoL/SoW breakdown;
• the lesson slides;
• relevant worksheet tasks or activity sheets (if not already embedded in the lesson slides;
• and assessment tasks: a creative writing/speech (performance) task, and an analysis/essay task.
  You can use these tasks if you like, or adjust to suit your department’s requirements.

There are three key scenes where I quite like to have theatre props available to get the students performing (especially to gain a better understanding of the impact of that scene):

• A1S1 with the witches opening the play
• A3S4 for their performance of Banquo’s ghost
• A4S1 when the witches give Macbeth the apparitions/prophecies about Macduff.