Lady Macbeth (higher ability lesson and resource)

Encourage students to think more critically about the character Lady Macbeth.

Resource:

This resource has statements from critics, sharing different viewpoints on the character Lady Macbeth. In groups, students will explore moments in the play to support or challenge the point of view. Each section has a challenge and an extension task extending student responses.

Lesson:

Recall questions which are open ended enabling for greater discussion and developed responses.
A kinesthetic task to encourage more critical judgements. This visual aid will be returned to at the end. *All of my students had changed their view about Lady Macbeth by the end of the lesson understanding her to be a more complex character than first believed. *
Group task.
Each group feeds back their ideas and findings with the rest of the class. Other groups add to their resource to complete the table of different viewpoints and perspectives.
Students then write a conceptualised, critical, exploratory introduction to an essay on Lady Macbeth.
This can develop to an essay.

2-3 lessons