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Macbeth |
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The teacher's
guide is based on material built up over more than 25 years of teaching the
play to high school students. The Study
Programme contains a mixture of notes, task sheets and worksheets of varying
levels of difficulty, all designed to make the teacher's life easier and the
play more accessible to students without compromising on academic standards. Answers supplied
to all questions and tasks. |
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Ellen Terry as Lady
Macbeth, as painted by John Singer Sargent |
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Contents
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Teaching
Guide |
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Study
Programme |
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Introduction |
3 |
Introduction |
2 |
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Teaching Approach |
4 |
Some Useful Background |
3 |
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The History Behind the Play |
5 |
Introducing the Characters |
4 |
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Detailed Plot Summary |
7 |
Keep a Log |
5 |
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Scene-by-scene Summary |
10 |
The Story of the Play |
6 |
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Conflict Task Sheet Answers |
17 |
Conflicts Task Sheet |
7 |
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Understanding the Play Answer Guide |
19 |
Understanding the Play |
8 |
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Features of Shakespearean Tragedy |
21 |
Features of Shakespearean Tragedy |
10 |
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Structure Worksheet Answers |
22 |
Structure |
11 |
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Structure Task Sheet Answers |
23 |
Setting the Scene |
12 |
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Setting |
25 |
Characterisation Tasks |
13 |
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Character Notes |
27 |
Themes |
15 |
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Themes – an approach |
36 |
Old English to Modern English |
16 |
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Themes – Notes |
37 |
Shakespeare's Use of Language |
19 |
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The Poetry and the Prose |
40 |
Ambiguity, Symbolism and Irony |
20 |
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The Soliloquies |
41 |
Multi-choice Quiz |
21 |
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Antithesis and Paradox Answer Guide |
42 |
Worksheets |
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Imagery Worksheet Answer Guide |
43 |
Study Record |
24 |
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Sleep Worksheet Answer Guide |
47 |
Structure of
Shakespearean Tragedy |
25 |
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Ambiguity, Symbolism and Irony Answers |
48 |
Setting |
26 |
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Extension Language Notes |
50 |
Character:
Macbeth |
29 |
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Close Reading Exercises |
53 |
Character: Lady
Macbeth |
30 |
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Essay Writing |
57 |
The Poetry and
the Prose |
31 |
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Quiz Answers |
60 |
Antithesis and
Paradox |
32 |
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Macbeth
on Film |
65 |
Imagery |
33 |
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Multi-choice Quiz Answers |
70 |
"Macbeth
Does Murder Sleep" |
38 |
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Bibliography |
70 |
Quick Quizzes |
39 |
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Appendix: Revision Sheets Answers |
71 |
Quotation Quiz |
41 |
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Appendix: Rise and Fall Graph |
76 |
Figures of
Speech Quiz |
43 |
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Appendix:
Revision Sheets |
44 |
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Appendix: Rise
and Fall Graph |
51 |
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Extras:
Chronology of Shakespeare's Time; Did Lady Macbeth Have Children?;
Elizabethan World View; Glossary of Literary Terms; Presentation of Essays;
map of Scotland; The Politics of Power; Introduction to Macbeth;
Reconsidering Soliloquies; and a full text. |
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