- Academy Curricular Exchange
Columbia Education Center
Language—MACBETH
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"Students will discuss the changes that each main character has undergone
in the play. . . .After examining historical events and
current world affairs, students are able to write an essay comparing the
event to the themes of Macbeth."
[This lesson plan is very short; I've quoted almost half of it. Visited 14 August 2005.]
- ArtsWork—MACBETH and the Themes of Ambition,
Power and Corruption
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"Students pantomime scenes from Macbeth, then improvise scenes on
the same themes, but based on modern situations. A comparison of character
motives and emotions follows."
[Visited 14 August 2005.]
- EDSITEment—Shakespeare's Macbeth: Fear and the "Dagger of the Mind"
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"After completing the lessons in this unit, students will be able to:
- Analyze how Shakespearean metaphors, imagery, and another dramatic cues
reveal Macbeth's response to fear.
- Perform without words a scene dramatizing Macbeth's response to fear."
[Visited 14 August 2005.]
- EDSITEment—Shakespeare's Macbeth: Fear and the Motives of Evil
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"After completing the lessons in this unit, students will be able to:
- Use an online search engine (or a printed concordance) to locate
passages that highlight Macbeth's response to fear and his descent into
evil.
- Use the results of this search to analyze the motives of
Macbeth's increasingly desperate and evil actions."
[All of the searches called for in the lesson can be more easily done on
the Macbeth Navigator Search Page. Visited 14 August 2005.]
- Analyse a Character in Macbeth
- "On their poster board they are not allowed to actually write
the name of the character. Each group will later present their poster to
the rest of the class and the class will then have to try to guess which
character the group has tried to describe."
[Visited 12 Aug. 2005.]
- A Taste of Macbeth
- "Divide the class into groups of three. Explain to them that
they will be acting out either the first scene or the first two scenes of
Macbeth and in case of working on two scenes, that each person will be
playing two characters in the play. . . . After each
group's performance, you can discuss the different choices they have
made . . . ."
[Visited 12 Aug. 2005.]
- Inquest—Macbeth
- "Set before the battle of Dunsinane, your pupils must decide their allegiance.
Who will they support, Macbeth or Malcolm?"
[Students go online and choose from a list of questions that can be
answered by various characters in the play. Your school must pay a £500 fee for an English Online subscription.
Visited 15 August 2005]
- Integrated Lesson Plan
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"After an in-class discussion students will be able to analyze
Shakespeare's MacBeth in regards to the various elements of fiction.
Students will use technology to produce a Power Point Presentation or Web
Page to demonstrate their knowledge of MacBeth."
[The site gives no examples of the kind of thing expected in the
student presentations. Visited 14 August 2005.]
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Lesson Plan Outline—MacBeth 200.
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[Students are directed to search the internet for appropriate modern-day careers for Macbeth. The page is very short. Visited 1 September 2005.]
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Lesson Plans.
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"After the lesson, students will be able to compare, contrast, and evaluate two film versions of Macbeth."
[The Macbeth lesson plan is the second one on the page; the first one is about Beowulf. Visited 1 September 2005.]
- Macbeth Activity
Using Alanis Morissette's "Wake Up"
- "Objective: Students will be able
to write statements from Lady Macbeth's viewpoint that express her attitude
toward Macbeth and reveal his ambivalence about committing the murder of
Duncan."
[Visited 15 August 2005]
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Macbeth: Shakespeare for Elementary Students
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"William Shakespeare's Macbeth Revised for youngsters by Brian Beckenstein."
[Beckenstein reduces the play to 4,441 words, a good many of which he supplies. Visited 1 September 2005.]
- Macbeth Lesson
Plans
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"The purpose of this lesson is to get the students into groups and thinking
about critical questions regarding Macbeth. These critical questions, then,
will lead to the formation of theses for upcoming Macbeth papers. Mostly, I
would like the students to question the motivation of the characters, and
come up with alternate solutions to the questions in a group. Also they are
to look for textual evidence to support their solutions."
[Only the first lesson plan is actually about Macbeth. Visited 14 August 2005.]
- Macbeth Theme Page
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[Links, but most are dead, and you won't find anything there that you
can't find here or on the Macbeth Navigator Online Resources page. Visited 6 Aug. 2005.]
- Methods of Teaching Macbeth
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[This is a college student's thoughts about what the best method of teaching Macbeth might be. Visited 3 September 2005.]
- Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet: Shakespeare in Education: Courses
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[Links, but you won't find anything there that you
can't find here or on the Macbeth Navigator Online Resources page. Also this very well-known site is not kept current; many of the links are dead. Visited 5 October 2005.]
- NCPublicSchools.org . . .British Literature/European History
12th
- "Goals To develop an awareness of integrity,
respect, and good judgment by assessing historical and personal character
development and applying writing skills to compositions concerning
character traits. . . . "
[The main activity regarding Macbeth is the making of a "character
chart" which leads to student discussion of "whether good judgment,
respect, and integrity were or were not displayed by the characters, and
real life situations in which students have opportunities to apply these
character traits today." Visited 12 Aug. 2005.]
- Talk Show on Sleep Disorders,
with Guests Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
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"Having read the Shakespearean play Macbeth, students will use the Internet to research the causes, symptoms, ramifications, and treatments of sleep disorders pertinent to the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth."
[Visited 1 September 2005.]
- Teacher Created Internet Plans
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"The students will read and understand Macbeth. They will examine the motives of the major characters and express their opinion of these motives in an essay."
[The page is very short. Visited 1 September 2005.]
- Teaching Macbeth
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"We will discuss the four prominent themes that are presented in Macbeth. . . . Students will break up into four groups and each be assigned one theme. They will find specific examples from the text for their theme. . . . Students will be assessed by their classroom participation, their ability to pull specific examples from the text, and how well they tie their theme to modern day."
[Visited 1 September 2005.]
- Teachers Language Arts Novel Guides — Macbeth
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"Ask students to work independently or in small groups to create a word web or other graphic organizer that explores one or more of the following concepts: fate, honor, ambition, guilt. . . . Have students discuss or role-play one of the following situations: (1) Imagine that you are trying to decide whether to do something you know is very wrong, but which will benefit you. . . . Have students debate the proposition, 'There is no ghost in this play. Macbeth only imagines it.' . . . Have a group of students put on a press conference in which one or several main characters from Macbeth answer questions from the press about Duncan's murder. . . . In his essay on Macbeth in Shakespeare, Mark Van Doren says, 'For sleep in Shakespeare is ever the privilege of the good and the reward of the innocent.' Have students discuss in a research paper whether Shakespeare's use of sleep in Macbeth supports this contention. . . . The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was a plan to assassinate King James I. Have students research it and write a research paper about regicide and its consequences, using the case of Macbeth and Duncan as an example."
[Visited 1 September 2005.]
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- "In the
first two Acts of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth appears to be more ruthless than
Macbeth. Using the AB/AB/AB method of comparison/contrast, show this is
true in an essay of between 700 and 800 words. You may exceed this length
without penalty."
[Most of the page consists of writing directions for the students.
Visited 15 August 2005]
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VCE English
Macbeth
- [This is a complete set of assignments for a Macbeth unit. The target audience is Year 11 students in Australia. The students are asked for a plot summary, for quotations illustrating the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, for a research report on a choice of topics, and for an actor's analysis and performance of a key passage.]
Visited 1 September 2005]
- WELCOME
To Kevin's English Lesson Page
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"Students will discuss the changes that each main character has undergone in the play. . . . After examining historical events and current world affairs, students are able to write an essay comparing the event to the themes of 'Macbeth'."
[Visited 12 Aug. 2005.]
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