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Subject: ELA
Topic: Women in Macbeth
Grade/Level: 10H
Learning Context: Students have already completed reading three acts, and have
read the first scene of act four. Students have been able to discuss and identify
some of the major conflicts in the play , and how they are impacting the characters
as the play progresses. Students are familiar with the titles of the characters, and
how some of the characters have changed dramatically since the first act. Today's
lesson has students discuss the difference between the two wives presented in this
play-Lady Macbeth and Lady Macduff. Students will get the opportunity to work in
small groups to analyze certain parts of the scene to understand the importance of
this small event in respect to the rest of the act. After today's lesson, students will
be more familiar with how the woman are looked upon in this play, and what
contribution they have toward the lingering conflicts present in the play.
Objectives:
Short-Term Objectives:
Students will be able to summarize what happens in act four, scene two.
Students will be able to distinguish the difference in character between Lady
Macbeth and Lady Macduff.
Students will be able to explain why the two female characters are similar yet very
different.
Long-Term Objectives:
Students will be able to document how different characters have grown
over the course of the text.
Students will be able to connect the beginning conflicts to the conflicts
presented at the end of the play.
Students will be able to question if Macbeth's sanity was changed because
of other people or solely his doing.
Standards:
NY- New York State Common Core Standards (2011)
Subject: English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and
Technical Subjects
Grade: Grades 910 students:
Content Area: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading Standards for Literature
Procedure:
1. Class will begin by first reviewing what new insights have been revealed in act four, scene one.
Students will break up into multiple small groups, no larger than four.
3. I will assign each group a page from the scene to analyze closely.
I will be walking around monitoring students progress and asking them questions to push
their thinking further.
Starting with the group that focused on the first page, students will get the opportunity to
share what they have annotated and understood.
The next group will then get to share their findings.
This will continue until the entire scene is complete and students have fully understood the
content of this scene.
5. Students will then be asked to turn their attention to the power point, which will reveal a discussion
question that students must answer and turn in as closing to the lesson.
The question will ask students to compare and contrast Lady Macduff and Lady Macbeth. They
must identify key moments where they are similar and different.