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Macbeth Coursework Assessment Guide

The document outlines the assessment objectives for coursework on 'Macbeth', detailing three main areas: demonstrating knowledge of the text, analyzing language and structure, and understanding the social-historical context. It also provides important deadlines for draft submissions and guidance on language techniques, structure, and form. Additionally, it encourages students to reflect on their previous coursework experiences and note key ideas for inclusion in their current work.

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Macbeth Coursework Assessment Guide

The document outlines the assessment objectives for coursework on 'Macbeth', detailing three main areas: demonstrating knowledge of the text, analyzing language and structure, and understanding the social-historical context. It also provides important deadlines for draft submissions and guidance on language techniques, structure, and form. Additionally, it encourages students to reflect on their previous coursework experiences and note key ideas for inclusion in their current work.

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Social-Historical Context: Macbeth

Saturday, 07
December 2024 What do you remember
about your ‘Inspector
Lesson Calls’ coursework, in
Objectives: terms of what to
include?
To understand what
the three
assessment Jot down at least 3
objectives are for requirements:
my final 1.
coursework. 2.
3.
To research and
feedback
Important Information
• Draft 1 due – Tuesday 21st January

• First drafts submitted after the


deadline will be treated as the
final draft.

• Draft 2 returned to you within a


week.

• ASA clubs offered on Wednesdays


afterschool for assistance with
Draft 2 – not draft 1.
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Macbeth Assessment Objectives:
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N •AO1 Demonstrate a close knowledge and understanding of texts, maintaining
a critical style and presenting an informed personal engagement. (10 marks)
D •i.e. engaging with the texts/having opinions about text and characters, and
E expressing ideas in a sophisticated and coherent way using appropriate
R English, style, and grammar.

S AO2 Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create
T meanings and effects. (10 marks)i.e. naming techniques correctly (language,
structure and form), exploring multiple interpretations of quotes and
A techniques, looking at the effect of vocabulary and structural choices, linking
N to Shakespeare’s intentions.
D •AO4 Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts
I in which they were written. (10 marks)i.e. showing a sound knowledge of
wider social and historical context during and or leading up to the writer’s
N lifetime which would have influenced him, including but not limited to: world
G politics, religion, cultural norms, gender expectations, medicine and its role,
war etc.
Here’s some guidance…
Language Structure Form

• Metaphors • Use of punctuation marks • Asides


• Similes • Exclamations • Soliloquies
• Hyperbole • Apostrophe (O’) • Dramatic irony
• Oxymoron • Caesura • Foreshadowing
• Religious allusion/biblical • Enjambment • Pathetic fallacy (use of
imagery • Written in blank verse v.s. weather and staging)
• Use of dark and light written in meter (e.g • 5 Act structure –
imagery iambic) exposition, rising tension,
• Supernatural lexical set climax etc
• (All language techniques) • Point of catharsis
• Tragic elements
• Journey of a tragic hero
U Social Historical Context: Research and
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