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KS3 · Year 9 - Mastery · Term 2 - Macbeth: Ambition and Conscience · Week 8
Pages: Macbeth 4.1
The witches return with three apparitions. Their equivocations give Macbeth false security: dramatic irony foreshadows his fall.
Lesson 1
What students do
Close read the apparitions: staging, symbolism, equivocation.
Task
Annotate dramatic irony in each apparition.
Success criteria
Reads for theatrical effect.
Lesson 2
What students do
Debate: fate or free will? Are the witches manipulators or mirrors?
Task
Argue with two textual moments.
Success criteria
Weighs interpretations.
Lesson 3
What students do
Model dramatic-irony analysis: "Shakespeare's irony exposes the limits of mortal certainty."
Task
Write a paragraph on false security.
Success criteria
Writing tracks dramatic effect.
Lesson 4
What students do
Analyse the show of kings (a flattery of James I).
Task
Paragraph on Jacobean political function.
Success criteria
Links text to context.
Lesson 5
What students do
Draft a thesis on fate vs free will.
Task
Write thesis + analytical paragraph.
Success criteria
Thesis is conceptual.
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