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Starter. What You Need: Your Cloze Activity from last day. Ensure that you have every line filled in, because we will be taking this up. Your Character Maps of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth from Monday’s homework. Today’s Lesson. Watch Act 2, scene 3 and 4.

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  1. Starter What You Need: • Your Cloze Activity from last day. Ensure that you have every line filled in, because we will be taking this up. • Your Character Maps of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth from Monday’s homework.

  2. Today’s Lesson • Watch Act 2, scene 3 and 4. • Act 2, scene 3: The discovery of King Duncan, murdered! Reactions of characters. • Act 2, scene 4: The unnatural world. Day is night! Animals turn on each other and mankind. • Character of Macbeth: • The Tragic hero • Conscience • SEXY paragraphs

  3. SEXY Paragraphs

  4. ESSAY – STRUCTURE One paragraph Introduction SEXY para to A the Q Go beyond simple SEXY structure: SEXYXY SEXY para to A the Q SEXY para to A the Q SEXY para to A the Q One paragraph Conclusion

  5. The Golden Rule • Make a point • Attack the ‘question’ • Quote the best example • Explain it clearly • Unpack it in more detail

  6. “UNPACKING” Quotations • State the language feature (eg metaphor) • Explain what it means • Explain why it is effective

  7. Analysing Effectiveness 1 It is effective because: • it implies • it suggests • it has connotations of... • it connotes… • it alludes to… • It refers to…

  8. Analysing Effectiveness 2 • Ask, “Why did the author choose to say it like that?” • Why ‘the grin of the fox’ • Substitute an alternative phrase and think, “Why not phrase it like that?” • Why not ‘the grin of a chicken”? • …because a fox is cunning, sly, sneaky, stealthy…. A chicken isn’t

  9. The Predictable Paradigm • In the [text type] [text title] by [author’s name], [paraphrase the question]. [Author’s surname] uses a range of techniques such as [technique 1] and [technique 2] to [paraphrase question again] • BORING!

  10. SEXY paragraphs

  11. The Magic Sentence

  12. Summary • Strip away the predictable • text selection • introductory paragraph • Foster independent thinking by providing structures • Banish some predictable ideas • SEXY paragraphs • Magic sentence • Unpack Quotations thoroughly • Gimmicks can build relationships

  13. Questions for Paragraphs • For Shakespeare’s Macbeth, analyse how language features (metaphor, simile, allusion, foreign words, hyperbole, alliteration….) help to illustrate the change in Macbeth from the beginning of the play to the end of Act 2. • For Shakespeare’s Macbeth, analyse how Macbeth is depicted as a tragic hero. (Choose how you would like to analyse Macbeth’s destiny, using symbolism, themes, motifs, simile, allusion, hyperbole…)

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