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KS3 · Year 9 - Mastery · Term 2 - Macbeth: Ambition and Conscience · Week 13
Pages: Macbeth full play + HT2 assessment
HT2 assessment: 60-minute thesis-driven essay on a play-wide theme. GCSE-style.
Lesson 1
What students do
Whole-play overview: track one theme across five acts.
Task
Build a theme tracker with eight quotations.
Success criteria
Reads across the text.
Lesson 2
What students do
Walking debate: ambition is/isn't the play's central concern.
Task
Defend a position with evidence.
Success criteria
Structures an argument.
Lesson 3
What students do
Model thesis-driven essay structure with conceptual signposting.
Task
Plan + write opening of HT2 essay.
Success criteria
Structure is cohesive.
Lesson 4
What students do
Self-edit a draft using mark-scheme criteria.
Task
Annotate three improvements.
Success criteria
Edits critically.
Lesson 5
What students do
60-minute assessment.
Task
Write a full thesis-driven essay on a play-wide theme.
Success criteria
Sustains a thesis-led, cohesive argument.
AI marking - try this with the English Hub feedback engine
Students can submit their independent paragraph to the AI feedback engine for AO-aligned commentary. Their teacher sees the same feedback alongside their own marking. The task is auto-loaded into the practice surface - students just write and submit.
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