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KS3 · Year 9 - Mastery · Term 2 - Macbeth: Ambition and Conscience · Week 4
Pages: Macbeth 1.5-1.7
Lady Macbeth's "unsex me here" invokes dark spirits, inverting Jacobean gender hierarchies in a play obsessed with masculinity.
Lesson 1
What students do
Close read 1.5 soliloquy: imperatives, semantic field of cruelty.
Task
Map verbs of invocation and their effects.
Success criteria
Links method to meaning.
Lesson 2
What students do
Discuss: is Lady Macbeth a feminist disruptor or a Jacobean warning?
Task
Argue using context and quotation.
Success criteria
Holds multiple interpretations.
Lesson 3
What students do
Model conceptual topic sentence: "Lady Macbeth weaponises gender to seize agency."
Task
Draft three conceptual topic sentences on agency.
Success criteria
Sentences are abstract and arguable.
Lesson 4
What students do
Analyse 1.7 manipulation ("screw your courage").
Task
Write a paragraph on manipulation using embedded quotation.
Success criteria
Sustains analytical control.
Lesson 5
What students do
Plan a feminist vs psychological reading of Lady Macbeth.
Task
Write a comparative paragraph weighing both.
Success criteria
Synthesises critical perspectives.
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