Grade 9 Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5 Lesson

This lesson covers key Jacobean context, an audience’s expectations, extensive analysis and questioning of the scene and possible extracts, key quotes with grade 9 analysis notes, critical theorists and relevant quotes surrounding gender, thoughtful extensive analysis on gender expectations and context, as well as a writing frame to support all students.

Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as is an option for debate, a second writing question template, and opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work.

Quote analysis is provided for:

• I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness
• That I may pour my spirits in thine ear
• Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here
• Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness
• The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements