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KS3 · Year 9 - Mastery · Term 2 - Macbeth: Ambition and Conscience · Week 5
Pages: Macbeth Act 2
Duncan's murder ruptures the Great Chain of Being; nature revolts (horses eat each other); Macbeth hallucinates the dagger.
Lesson 1
What students do
Close read 2.1 dagger soliloquy: questions, vision, broken metre.
Task
Annotate fragmented syntax and its meaning.
Success criteria
Links structure to psychology.
Lesson 2
What students do
Evaluate: is Macbeth a willing villain or a victim of conscience?
Task
Build a structured argument.
Success criteria
Evaluation is balanced.
Lesson 3
What students do
Model varied sentence forms in analysis (short for impact, complex for nuance).
Task
Rewrite a paragraph using three sentence forms.
Success criteria
Sentences serve effect.
Lesson 4
What students do
Analyse 2.2 ("Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood").
Task
Paragraph using terminology (hyperbole, biblical imagery).
Success criteria
Uses precise terms.
Lesson 5
What students do
Plan a thesis essay on guilt in Act 2.
Task
Write thesis + two paragraphs.
Success criteria
Essay shows whole-text cohesion.
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