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KS3 · Year 9 - Mastery · Term 2 - Macbeth: Ambition and Conscience · Week 10
Pages: Macbeth 5.1
Lady Macbeth sleepwalks ("Out, damned spot"). Her prose, fragmented, marks total psychological collapse.
Lesson 1
What students do
Close read 5.1: prose vs verse, repetition, broken syntax.
Task
Annotate form and structure shifts.
Success criteria
Reads for form precisely.
Lesson 2
What students do
Discuss: does she deserve sympathy now? Does the play punish ambition itself or female ambition?
Task
Argue with evidence.
Success criteria
Weighs feminist reading.
Lesson 3
What students do
Model: "Shakespeare's broken prose enacts psychic disintegration."
Task
Paragraph on form mirroring mind.
Success criteria
Links form to meaning.
Lesson 4
What students do
Compare 1.5 and 5.1 Lady Macbeths.
Task
Comparative paragraph on arc and undoing.
Success criteria
Tracks across the play.
Lesson 5
What students do
Plan a thesis on Lady Macbeth's arc.
Task
Write thesis + two paragraphs.
Success criteria
Essay shows cohesion.
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