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Of Mice and Men and Macbeth
English Literature
Steps to success
A*
Sophisticated, critical/imaginative/evaluative response to texts and task
Sophisticated engagement with ideas and attitudes in the texts
Sophisticated and impressive interpretations using imaginatively selected textual, detail
Sophisticated and impressive analysis of aspects of authors’ craft
Perceptive and imaginative exploration of links and comparisons
Perceptive and imaginative comment on the significance of relevant contexts
A
Considered/developed critical/imaginative/evaluative response to texts and task
Considered/developed response to ideas and attitudes in the texts
Developed interpretations using thoughtfully selected supporting textual detail
Considered appreciation of aspects of authors’ craft with thoughtfully selected
Supporting textual detail
Developed consideration of possible links and comparisons between texts
Developed consideration of significance of relevant contexts
B
Clear and sustained critical/imaginative/evaluative response to texts and task
Clear and sustained understanding of ideas and/or attitudes in the texts supported by
relevant textual detail
Clear and sustained interpretations supported by relevant textual detail
Clear and sustained understanding of features of authors’ craft supported by relevant
textual detail
Clear and sustained understanding of links and comparison between texts
Clear and sustained grasp of the significance of aspects of relevant contexts
C
Explained response to texts and/or task
Explained understanding of ideas or attitudes in the texts
Supported interpretations using appropriate textual detail
Explained understanding of features of authors’ craft supported by appropriate textual
detail
Supported links or comparisons between texts
Explained understanding of significance of relevant contexts
Some
Some
Some
Some
Some
Some
D
response to text and/or task
familiarity with ideas or attitudes supported by a range of textual detail
interpretation supported by some textual detail
familiarity with obvious features of authors' craft
appropriate comments about possible links between texts
comments about contexts
Read the Extract from John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men below:
Both men glanced up, for the rectangle of sunshine in the doorway was cut off. A girl was standing there
looking in. She had full, rouged lips and widespaced eyes, heavily made up. Her fingernails were red. Her hair
hung in little rolled clusters, like sausages. She wore a cotton house dress and red mules, on
the insteps of which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers. “I’m lookin’ for Curley,” she
said. Her voice had a nasal, brittle quality.
George looked away from her and then back. “He was in here a minute ago, but he went.”
“Oh!” She put her hands behind her back and leaned against the door frame so that her body
was thrown forward. “You’re the new fellas that just come, ain’t ya?”
“Yeah.”
Lennie’s eyes moved down over her body, and though she did not seem to be looking at
Lennie she bridled a little. She looked at her fingernails. “Sometimes Curley’s in here,” she
explained.
George said brusquely. “Well he ain’t now.”
“If he ain’t, I guess I better look some place else,” she said playfully.
Lennie watched her, fascinated. George said, “If I see him, I’ll pass the word you was
looking for him.”
She smiled archly and twitched her body. “Nobody can’t blame a person for lookin’,” she
said. There were footsteps behind her, going by. She turned her head. “Hi, Slim,” she said.
Slim’s voice came through the door. “Hi, Good-lookin’.”
“I’m tryin’ to find Curley, Slim.”
“Well, you ain’t tryin’ very hard. I seen him goin’ in your house.”
She was suddenly apprehensive. “’Bye, boys,” she called into the bunk house, and she hurried
away.
George looked around at Lennie. “Jesus, what a tramp,” he said. “So that’s what Curley picks
for a wife.”
“She’s purty,” said Lennie defensively.
“Yeah, and she’s sure hidin’ it. Curley got his work ahead of him. Bet she’d clear out for
twenty bucks.”
Lennie still stared at the doorway where she had been. “Gosh, she was purty.” He smiled
admiringly. George looked quickly down at him and then he took him by an ear and shook
him.
“Listen to me, you crazy bastard,” he said fiercely. “Don’t you even take a look at that bitch.
I don’t care what she says and what she does. I seen ‘em poison before, but I never seen no
piece of jail bait worse than her. You leave her be.”
Learning Objective:
To explore the character of Curley’s wife?
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What does she look like?
•
What type of person is she?
Task
Identify/highlight and annotate all the words used to describe Curley’s Wife.
List FIVE adjectives below you could use to describe Curley’s wife:
1.
2.
v
3.
4.
5.
Write a PEE paragraph exploring the way John Steinbeck presents Curley’s Wife in this
extract.
EXPLAIN how John Steinbeck presents Curley’s Wife
EXPLAIN how John Steinbeck presents Curley’s Wife
and
CONCLUDE whether it is a positive or negative representation
EXPLAIN how John Steinbeck presents Curley’s Wife
and
CONCLUDE whether it is a positive or negative representation
and
EVALUATE the language Steinbeck uses to present the character
Read the extract below from Act 1 Scene 5 of Macbeth
SERVANT
The king comes here tonight.
SERVANT
The king is
coming
here
tonight.
LADY MACBETH
LADY MACBETH
Thou 'rt mad to say it.
Is not thy master with him, who,
were ’t so,
You must be crazy to say that!
Isn’t Macbeth with the king,
and wouldn’t Macbeth have
Would have informed for
preparation?
told me in advance so I could
prepare, if the king were really
coming?
SERVANT
So please you, it is true: our thane is
coming.
SERVANT
I’m sorry, but it’s the truth.
Macbeth is coming. He sent a
One of my fellows had the speed of
him,
Who, almost dead for breath, had
scarcely more
Than would make up his message.
messenger ahead of him who
arrived here so out of breath
that he could barely speak his
message.
LADY MACBETH
Give him tending.
He brings great news.
LADY MACBETH
Take good care of him. He
brings great news.
Exit SERVANT
The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of
Duncan
Under my battlements. Come, you
spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts,
unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the
The SERVANT exits.
So the messenger is short of
breath, like a hoarse raven, as
he announces Duncan’s
entrance into my fortress,
where he will die. Come, you
spirits that asist murderous
thoughts, make me less like a
woman and more like a man,
toe top-full
and fill me from head to toe
Of direst cruelty. Make thick my
blood.
Stop up the access and passage to
remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of
nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep
peace between
The effect and it! Come to my
woman’s breasts,
with deadly cruelty! Thicken
my blood and clog up my
veins so I won’t feel remorse,
so that no human compassion
can stop my evil plan or
prevent me from
accomplishing it! Come to my
female breast and turn my
mother’s milk into poisonous
acid, you murdering demons,
And take my milk for gall, you
murd'ring ministers,
Wherever in your sightless
substances
You wait on nature’s mischief.
Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke
of hell,
That my keen knife see not the
wherever you hide, invisible
and waiting to do evil! Come,
thick night, and cover the
world in the darkest smoke of
hell, so that my sharp knife
can’t see the wound it cuts
open, and so heaven can’t peep
through the darkness and cry,
“No! Stop!”
wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the
blanket of the dark
To cry “Hold, hold!”
Enter MACBETH
MACBETH enters.
Great Glamis, worthy Cawdor,
Greater than both, by the all-hail
hereafter,
Thy letters have transported me
Great thane of Glamis! Worthy thane of
Cawdor! You’ll soon be greater than
both those titles, once you become king!
Your letter has transported me from the
beyond
This ignorant present, and I feel
now
The future in the instant.
present moment, when who knows what
will happen, and has made me feel like
the future is already here.
MACBETH
My dearest love,
Duncan comes here tonight.
MACBETH
My dearest love, Duncan is coming here
tonight.
LADY MACBETH
And when goes hence?
LADY MACBETH
And when is he leaving?
MACBETH
Tomorrow, as he purposes.
MACBETH
He plans to leave tomorrow.
LADY MACBETH
O, never
Shall sun that morrow see!
Your face, my thane, is as a book
where men
May read strange matters. To
LADY MACBETH
That day will never come. Your face
betrays strange feelings, my lord, and
people will be able to read it like a book.
In order to deceive them, you must
appear the way they expect you to look.
beguile the time,
Look like the time. Bear welcome in
your eye,
Your hand, your tongue. Look like
th' innocent flower,
But be the serpent under ’t. He
that’s coming
Must be provided for; and you shall
put
This night’s great business into my
Greet the king with a welcoming
expression in your eyes, your hands, and
your words. You should look like an
innocent flower, but be like the snake
that hides underneath the flower. The
king is coming, and he’s got to be taken
care of. Let me handle tonight’s
preparations, because tonight will
change every night and day for the rest
of our lives.
dispatch,
Which shall to all our nights and
days to come
Give solely sovereign sway and
masterdom.
MACBETH
We will speak further.
MACBETH
We will speak about this further.
LADY MACBETH
Only look up clear.
LADY MACBETH
You should project a peaceful mood,
To alter favor ever is to fear.
Leave all the rest to me.
because if you look troubled, you will
arouse suspicion. Leave all the rest to
me.
Learning Objective:
To explore the character of Lady Macbeth?
•
What does she look like?
•
What type of person is she?
Task
Identify/highlight and annotate all the words that illustrate Lady Macbeth’s character.
List FIVE adjectives below you could use to describe Lady Macbeth:
1.
2.
v
3.
4.
5.
Write a PEE paragraph exploring the way Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth in this
scene.
C Grade Answer will…
EXPLAIN how Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth
B Grade Answer will…
EXPLAIN how Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth
and
CONCLUDE whether it is a positive or negative representation
A/A* Grade Answer will..
EXPLAIN how Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth
and
CONCLUDE whether it is a positive or negative representation
and
EVALUATE the language Shakespeare uses to present the character
Complete the Venn Diagram comparing Lady Macbeth and Curley’s Wife.
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How are they presented differently?
How are they presented the same?