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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 |
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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 |
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Appendix: Revision Sheets |
44 |
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Appendix: Rise and Fall Graph |
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Extras on the CD: 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 script. |
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