Lesson Plan 3 of Macbeth
ASM: Language Arts
Beth Herman-Davis
Name: Loretta Hunt
Age/Grade 9th – 12th Reading & Writing Enrichment (Read 180, remedial)
Subject Area(s)_English/Literature____
Unit Macbeth___
Lesson Title: Conclusion of Macbeth
Estimated Time: 90 minutes
Purpose/Rationale for lesson: This is the concluding lesson of the Macbeth unit. This lesson includes the final
exam with a timeline and questions regarding the characters in the play. I have devised a Jeopardy character
game to review the characteristics, motives and ambitions of each character. This should help students become
immersed in the players of the story. By playing a game, I am hoping to bring their understanding and
enjoyment to a new level.
Essential Question: How do an individual’s core values impact his/her relationship with society and
him/herself?
Unit Question: What is the plot and theme of Macbeth, and who are the characters involved?
Lesson or Content Question: How can we critically review Macbeth and the characters that take part in the
story?
Goal: To review the play through discussion and a Jeopardy game.
Lesson Objectives: Students will be able to correct capitalization and comma mistakes in a sentence.
Standards
EL.HS.WR.18 Use conventions of punctuation correctly, including semicolons, colons, ellipses,
hyphens and dashes.
EL.CN.LI.06 - - Identify themes in literary works, and provide support for interpretations from the text.
Materials
o Write source books
o Macbeth book
o Thumb drive –
o Word Jeopardy questions
o Jeopardy labs game
o Macbeth Test
Agenda
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Procedures
A.
DOL on the board
Jeopardy game
Verbal review
Independent reading
Exit card
The following DOL on the board when the students come into the classroom –
the Cleveland Indians are named after Louis Sockolexis whom, was the first native American to
play professional baseball.
Before we go over the DOL for the day, I will inform students of the day’s objectives and verbally tell them the
agenda.
We have been going over capitalization, and punctuation for the daily oral language lesson each day. I am
moving towards focusing on commas.
I will also remind students about the fundamentals of commas in that they are used to indicate a pause or a
change in thought. Commas make reading easier because words do not run together.
Corrections: The Cleveland Indians are named after Louis Sockolexis, who was the first Native
American to play professional baseball. (5 corrections)
I will tell students that who and whom can be difficult to differentiate. In this sentence, there are really 2
separate sentences connected by “who,” however, in this case “whom” is not the object of the verb “was” and
“Who was the first Native American to play professional baseball” is an independent clause. “whom” is
always used after a preposition.
(15 minutes)
B. The Jeopardy character game
I will tell students that we are going to break into two teams, and I will divide the class in half.
The Jeopardy character game is designed to help students remember traits and
accomplishments of the characters in the play. There will be prizes for the team that wins the
game. The questions for the Jeopardy game are as follows:
The Macbeth Jeopardy game – click here Macbeth Jeopardy Game:) Jeopardy Template
Character Jeopardy!
LADY MACBETH
For 100 points
How does Lady Macbeth help kill Duncan?
Answer: What is- she gets the guards drunk and plants daggers on them?
For 200 points
Which of the seven sins is Lady Macbeth most guilty of?
Answer: What is - greed? wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony.
For 300 points
Why does Lady Macbeth say that she can’t kill Duncan?
What is - he looks like her father?
For 400 points
What symbolism does Lady Macbeth’s fainting have and how is it ironic?
What is - it gives the people the sense that she is completely shocked that the King has been murdered. It is
ironic because she planned the entire thing.
For 500 points
What does Macbeth say after hearing of Lady Macbeth’s suicide?
What is - “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is
heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
MACBETH
For 100 points
What did Macbeth do to the supposed murderers and why?
What is- He kills them in fury. He claims that in his great fury he kills them without thinking.
For 200 points
What happens that causes Macbeth to question becoming King?
What is- Malcolm becomes the Prince of Cumberland?
For 300 points
What title is given to Macbeth for bravery in the battle?
What is the Thane of Cawdor?
For 400 points
Why does the King come to Macbeth’s castle?
What is to be the thane of Cawdor’s death and to congratulate Macbeth over dinner.
For 500 points
Why doesn’t Macbeth put on armor before he goes out to battle?
What is He knows that he cannot be killed by a man born of woman.
CHARACTERS
For 100 points
Who are Duncan’s sons?
What is Malcolm and Donalbain.
For 200 points
Who is Banquo’s son that flees from death?
What is Fleance.
For 300 points
Who kills Macbeth?
What is Macduff.
For 400 points
Who does Macbeth have killed because he thinks they know he killed Duncan?
What is Banquo.
For 500 points
Who says this about Macbeth? “Yet do I fear nature; it is too full of the milk of human kindness to catch the
nearest way.”
What is Lady Macbeth?
RANDOM
For 100 points
Where does Macbeth take place?
What is Scotland.
For 200 points
What is said that frightens Macbeth before he is killed by Macduff?
What is Macduff tells Macbeth that he was ripped from his mother’s womb at an untimely moment.
For 300 points
Who says, “Lesser than Macbeth, and greater. Not so happy, yet, much happier. Thou shalt get kings, though
thou be none.”
What is the witches.
For 400 points
What happens when the murderers try to kill Banquo and his son?
What is they killed Banquo but let his son Fleance escape.
For 500 points
What significance does the doctor have?
What is he sees and hears the confession of Lady Macbeth while he is trying to diagnose her condition.
THE WITCHES
For 100 points
How do the witches greet Macbeth after battle?
What is they greet him as Thane of Cawdor, Thane of Glamis and future King.
For 200 points
What are the witches doing at the beginning of Act 4?
What is They were making a brew and waiting for Macbeth.
For 300 points
What are two of the witch’s apparitions and what do they symbolize?
What is the bloody baby that symbolizes that no person woman born can kill him. A child holding a tree
symbolizes that he will never be defeated until Birnham wood moves.
For 400 points
Who is queen of the witches?
What is Hecate.
For 500 points
How is the prophesy of Birnham Wood moving to Dusinane Hill fulfilled?
What is each man in the English force cuts down a bough to provide cover so that the size of the army is not
known.
(20 minutes)
C. After the Jeopardy game, I will briefly go over the test and ask the students if anyone has any
question. Next I will pass out the test. When students finish the test, they should immediately
move into independent reading. (20 minutes for the test) (20 minutes for independent reading)
D. Closing: I will review the questions on the test and let students know what the answers are to the
questions while they are still fresh on the students’ minds.
Attention to Literacy:
 Reading and interpreting the scene.
 Daily Oral Language on the board
 Jeopardy Game
Assessment and Evaluation of Student Learning:
 DOL written correctly in the notebook
 Participation in the Jeopardy game
 Final Test