Year 10

Homework Strategies
Macbeth
• Give all pupils a copy of the knowledge organiser on the following slides. (Information taken from PT knowledge check and Eduqas
knowledge organiser.)

• Each week, assign a section of the KO for pupils to revise from. Allocate a section that is linked to the coverage so far
or just beyond.

• Pupils revise the section and produce some revision materials such as – flashcards or thinking map.

• Knowledge can be tested in the lesson that the homework is due in. Your connection task could be a recall activity
based around the section assigned – this can be a quiz or a jigsaw/hexagon activity .

• As the weeks progress make your recall activities include questions on previous weeks to test longer term knowledge.
 MACBETH– KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER
PLOT CHARACTERS

ACT KEY EVENTS KEY WORD A loyal warrior who becomes evil, murderous and deceptive as he becomes obsessed with
Macbeth the witches’ prophecies of power
The play opens as three witches plan a meeting with the Scottish nobleman Macbeth,
1.1 who at the moment is fighting in a great battle BATTLE Macbeth’s wife who fuels his ambition in the beginning but loses her control and kills
Lady Macbeth herself in despair by the end.
When the battle is over, Macbeth and his friend Banquo come across the witches
who offer them three prophecies that Macbeth will become Thane of Cawdor and
1.3 King of Scotland and that Banquo’s descendants will become kings PROPHECIES (Weird Sisters) – Supernatural forces of nature who seem to know the future. They
The Witches equivocate with Macbeth
Banquo laughs at the prophecies but Macbeth is excited, especially as soon after their
meeting with the witches Macbeth is made Thane of Cawdor by King Duncan, in Macbeth’s best friend who also receives prophecies from the witches. He is murdered by
1.3 return for bravery in the battle. CAWDOR Banquo Macbeth
Macbeth writes to his wife, Lady Macbeth, who is as excited as he is. She thinks he is King Duncan A fair and respected leader at the start of the play. Murdered by Macbeth
1.5 too kind to become king the easiest way. LETTER
A brave warrior who is loyal to Duncan and is consistently suspicious of Macbeth. Kills
A messenger tells Lady Macbeth that King Duncan is on his way to their castle and he Macduff Macbeth at the end
1.5 invokes evil spirits to help her slay him. EVIL

2.2 Macbeth is manipulated into killing Duncan by his wife and stabs him to death.
MANIPULATED Malcom Duncan’s son and next in line to the throne. Becomes the rightful king at the end

No-one is quite sure who committed this murder and no-one feels safe, but Macbeth Fleance Banquo’s son who escapes and eventually fathers a line of kings
2.3 is crowned king. CROWNED

Now that Macbeth is king he knows the second prediction from the witches has come
3.1
true, but he starts to fear the third prediction (that Banquo’s decedents will also be
king.) FEAR THEMES

Macbeth therefore decides to kill Banquo and his son, but the plan goes wrong –
3.3 Banquo is killed but his son escapes. BANQUO KINGSHIP VS
POWER AMBITION VIOLENCE SUPERNATURAL FATE/DESTINY GENDER TYRANNY
Macbeth then thinks he is going mad because he sees Banquo’s ghost and received Macbeth Ambition is a With elements The theme of the Some people Shakespeare Duncan and
3.4 more prophecies from the witches. PROPHECIES becomes power strong desire to do like wars, supernatural believe that appears to play Macbeth
hungry and or achieve assassinations, appears in the there is a certain with gender embody the
He starts to become ruthless and kills the family of Macduff, an important lord. changed him into something. and play in various path that has roles in a qualities of a
4.2 FAMILY a demanding Ambition is central murders, violen guises – as the already been set patriarchal good king and a
dictator. ... The to the play, being a ce takes up a witches, as out for us, and society. Lady tyrant
Macbeth still thinks he is safe but one by one the witches’ prophecies come true. power changes key fatal flaw in significant part visions and in
4.3 TRUE Macbeth both Macbeth and of Macbeth Lady Macbeth’s
nothing we do in Macbeth respectively.
life can change appears to stand
throughout the Lady Macbeth’s incantations.
Lady Macbeth can not stop thinking about Duncan, she sleepwalks. Later, she play to the point character. this. out as she first
5.1 commits suicide. SUICIDE where he doesn't appears more
even know who powerful than
he has become. her husband.
A large army marches on Macbeth’s castle and Macbeth is killed by Macduff. Malcom
5.4 is crown the rightful king of Scotland. MACDUFF
 VOCBAULARY KEY QUOTATION KEY WORD CONTEXT
Meter Fair is foul and foul is fair. FAIR Macbeth was written the year after the Gunpowder Plot of
Blank Verse 1605. Guy Fawkes and his men tried to blow up James I and his
When the battle is lost and won. BATTLE parliament in 1605; the were caught and hung/tortured. The
Prose
If chance will have me king, then chance may crown me. CHANCE play Macbeth is to some extent warning any other potential
Iambic Pentameter
king-killers of what could happen.
Soliloquy I fear thy nature; it is too full o’ the milk of human kindness. MILK
Dramatic Irony
Many believed in ‘the chain of being’. God had given us all
Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it. SERPENT roles. To change these roles was seen as an act against God.
Concealment (Chain of being: God, Angels, kings, humans, beasts, plants).
Imagery I dare do all that may become a man; who dares do more is none. DARE
Shakespeare's plot is partly based on fact. Macbeth was a real
Tragedy
I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps SPUR eleventh century Scottish king recorded in the Holinshed
Hamartia itself. Chronicles. As a tribute to James I (a descendant of the real
Prophecy Is this a dagger I see before me? DAGGER Banquo), Shakespeare presents Banquo as a wise, noble and
regal figure.
Regicide
There’s daggers in men’s smiles. SMILES
Imagery
What’s done is done. DONE When Shakespeare wrote Macbeth, witchcraft was a topic of
Symbols considerable interest.  Evidence of a relationship with evil
Metaphor By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes. PRICKING spirits condemned a suspect to death by hanging, burning or
drowning. 
Out, damned spot. SPOT
FORM All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. PERFUMES Elizabethan Women were obedient to men. Women were
Shakespeare uses soliloquy
expected to run the households and provide children – the
to allow the characters to Out, out brief candle. OUT marriage would not be an equal partnership. Large families
communicate their true
thoughts to the audience
were the norm as the mortality rate for children and babies was
I bear a charmed life. CHARMED so high.
Macbeth is one of
Shakespeare’s Tragedies and
follows specific conventions.
The climax must end in a SHAKESPEARE’S INTENTIONS
tremendous catastrophe
involving the death of the
main character; the AMBITION – Ambition can drive us to do great things, but, untamed, can also lead us to our
character’s death is caused
by their own flaw(s) downfall.
(hamartia). The character
has something the audience
can identify with which KINGS VS TYRANTS – A king is fair, admired and ethical in behaviour. A tyrant rules by
outweighs their flaws so we
care about them fear/violence and can be brutal, unfair and unethical in behaviour.

HUMANITY – Humans are fallible and event the people perceived as the strongest have
weaknesses that can lead to their downfall.
 KNOWLEDGE RETRIEVAL STRATEGIES HELP TO STRENGTHEN AND DEEPEN MEMORY

Maps – Graphic organisers Quizzes – Instant feedback Whiteboard – Pupil

to recall and organise on progress and filling planner – Instant recall
knowledge gaps in knowledge from memory

Knowledge Organiser – Organises Jigsaw – Strengthens links

Flashcards – Pupils can test
key knowledge you want to know between knowledge from
themselves e.g. question on
for a topic. Pupils can create their lesson to lesson. Can also use
one side, answer on the other.
own or have one provided. hexagon or diamond 9 activities
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 Above and Beyond – Read and Watch List

Those pupils who want to go ‘above and

beyond’ set homework have the
opportunity to do some wider reading
around the novel. Year 10 - Homework (
Pupils choose an extract or something to
watch from the list and produce notes
padlet.com)
using one of the retrieval strategies.

Extra Manor Marks should be awarded for

pupils who go ‘above and beyond’