English
Year 9 Lesson 7
Spiritual
Moral
Social
Cultural
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Starter Activity
Turn to a partner:
Discussion Starter
On the next slide you will see your starter
activity…
Chat to each other
about the questions
which you are given.
Lesson Objective
Learning
Objective
To develop your knowledge of
Lady Macbeth and how she
uses language to persuade
Macbeth.
Must
Level 4
Should
Level 5
Could
Level 6
Key Stage 3 AFs
Reading
Assessment Focus Two (AF2)
AFs
I am able to understand and pick out the
appropriate quote, event or idea from a text and
use PEE to demonstrate my understanding.
Reading
Assessment Focus Three (AF3)
I can read and understand meaning
that is only hinted at.
Starter Activity
Who do you think is
the most powerful in
these celebrity
relationships?
Think about
How they behave
Who is in the limelight
more?
Their reputations as
individuals
Has this always been
the case?
How does the most
dominant partner exert
their power?
Act 1 Scene 5
Lady Macbeth.
For Your Information
Act 1 Scene 5
Lady Macbeth reads a letter from
Macbeth that explains his meeting
with the Witches. She fears that his
nature is not ruthless enough to
murder Duncan and assure the
completion of the witches' prophecy.
Key Quotations
I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
Gentleness of
to catch the nearest way.
decent humanity
What
hither,
does she
That I may pour my spirits in thine ear;
mean?
And chastise with the valour of my tongue
All that impedes thee from the golden round,
Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem
To have thee crown'd withal.
Crown
Hurry
For Your Information
A messenger arrives
and inform Lady
Macbeth Duncan is
coming to her home
that evening.
How does she react to this?
Key Quotations
Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me
here, She asks the spirits to take away all her womanly compassion
And fill me from the crown to the toe tophead
full
Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;
Come to my woman's breasts,
And take my milk for gall,
In exchange for sour vinegar
Macbeth arrives home. He informs
Lady Macbeth that Duncan will stay
that night and leave in the morning.
She replies:
O, never
Shall sun that morrow see!
What does Lady Macbeth mean by this?
Key Quotations
She continues to talk to Macbeth:
To deceive people look as they expect you to look
To beguile the time,
Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under't. He that's coming
Must be provided for: and you shall put
This What
night's
great
business
into to
mydo?
dispatch;
is she
telling
Macbeth
Macbeth’s response to his wife is:
‘We will speak further.’
These are his final words in Act 1 scene 5.
What does this suggest about his
thoughts regarding his Lady Macbeth’s
plan to kill Duncan that night?
Main Writing Task
Monologues
You are now going to write your own
monologue speaking as Lady Macbeth.
Remember, she has received her
husbands letter and is beginning to
make plans.
Think about how she wants to
persuade Macbeth in your writing.
Be prepared to feedback and share your work with
the class.
Quick Recap
Again…let’s examine the audiences perception of women at the time.
Obeyed their
husband’s every
decision. No
influence.
Dominated by their
father and then
their husbands.
Avid follower of
religion. Life is
ruled by the
traditions of
Christianity.
Completely
against violence
of any sorts.
No say in the finer
details of married
life; money, land
etc.
Mother & care
giver.
Plenary Activity
How do they compare? Stereotypical? Obeying to traditional belief?
USE QUOTATIONS
Typical 16th century woman
Devoted to being a woman.
Embraces womanhood.
Lady Macbeth
No desire to be typically
womanly; needs to rid
herself of womanly
emotions to commit evil.
‘’Unsex me here’’.
Self Assessment
Learning
Objective
To develop your knowledge of Lady
Macbeth and how she uses language
to persuade Macbeth.
Turn to your partner and tell them what level you think you
have reached today.
Justify your level with a Learning Objective related comment.
Must
Level 4
Should
Level 5
Could
Level 6