Planning for your Macbeth Essay
The following captures from the classroom whiteboard outline the planning work we’ve been doing as a class for the students’ Macbeth Essay The first draft of your essay is due for completion on Tuesday – please bring it to class that...
Macbeth Project
Now that we’ve completed our reading and plot analysis of Macbeth, the real thinking begins. Attached to this entry is the project outline, complete with the component options and the deadlines by which the different aspects must be completed. As you work through your options in class, I’ll also give some basic demonstrations and model examples of what each aspect of the project should look like on completion. These will...
MACBETH: Personification
As part of our Year 8 Macbeth Study, we’re looking, in acute detail, at some small excerpts from the main play. We’re putting the microscope on the language of Shakespeare and what this might reveal. My proposition with this presentation is that Shakespeare has Macbeth use personification to reveal the extent to which Macbeth is blaming external forces for the choices he is about to make.