ENG2D Unit 4: Power Plays (Macbeth)

What happens when ambition has no limits? Students warm up with real insults from the play, investigate Duncan's murder on a crime board, perform soliloquies two ways, rewrite Act 3 as a group chat and put the witches, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth on trial.

Assessment of learning: a thesis-driven literary essay and a modern adaptation scene or film trailer, with rubrics.

Lessons

1. Insult Generator
2. The Prophecy: Act 1 (2 classes)
3. Crime Scene: Act 2 (2 classes)
4. Soliloquy Lab
5. Paranoia: Act 3 (2 classes)
6. Apparitions: Act 4
7. Unravelling: Act 5 (2 classes)
8. Who's to Blame?
9. The Literary Essay (2 classes)
10. Adaptation Project (3 classes)

What you get

• A teacher lesson plan for every lesson: curriculum expectations, learning goals and success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation, look-fors and answer guides
• Detailed slideshows (15 to 19 slides per lesson) with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend, plus worked examples, model answers and answer-key slides
• Student handouts, organizers and exit tickets
• Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs
• A unit overview and both summative tasks with rubrics. Use any edition of the play

Built for the Ontario curriculum (English, Grades 9 and 10, 2007, revised), and easy to adapt for any Grade 10 English class.

Need just one lesson? Single lessons from this unit will also be available for CA$3.99 each.