Kia Ora Yr 9,
This week ( week 1 and Week 2) we are starting our new topic. We are going to be studying the text. 'Macbeth' by William Shakespeare. The overall learning aim is to be more confident with reading, understanding meaning and be able to write a SEXY paragraph with confidence.
This week, we will concentrate on finding out about the author himself, practising speaking Elizabethan English. Next week we will be exploring contextual information about witches during this time period.
Do NOW- In your journals:
1- Write down the possible meanings and interpretations of the following.
2-How could it relate to your life?
Fair is foul and foul is fair
Absolute power corrupts absolutely
Leaders should avoid being ambitious without morality.
There are daggers in peoples smiles
Every lesson we begin with a 'Do Now'. The type of activity will follow a 3 week cycle
1- Writing in our journal- Big statement prompt or other writing based activities EG: Leaning about language features or sentence construction.
2- Reading based activities.
3- Speaking activities, based on interpreting and discussing a Whakataukī
Below are the slides for your lessons Week 1- slides 1-5, Week 2 Slides 6-26
Complete this activity- this is a copy only- your copy has been dropped into your English folder
Kia Ora Year 9, this week we are going to learn about the setting and characters from the play 'Macbeth' written by William Shakespeare. We may even get up to learning, watching and doing the beginning of the play, where we meet The Witches!
Slides 27-43
Every lesson we begin with a 'Do Now'. The type of activity will follow a 3 week cycle
1- Writing in our journal- Big statement prompt or other writing based activities EG: Leaning about language features or sentence construction.
2- Reading based activities.
3- Speaking activities, based on interpreting and discussing a Whakataukī
Check your email for the class canva invite to create your poster- instructions on slide 34
Kia Ora Year 9, this week our do nows will focus on Speaking and listening- we are going to remember all the characters names within our studied text ' Macbeth' by William Shakespeare. We are also going to start reading the abridged version of the play. The first lesson will concentrate on meeting the witches. We will then meet Macbeth, Banquo and Ladt Macbeth. We will concentrate on reflecting on their personalities and actions at the start of the play. We will begin to look at Lady Macbeth's first important soliloquy.
Every lesson we begin with a 'Do Now'. The type of activity will follow a 3 week cycle
1- Writing in our journal- Big statement prompt or other writing based activities EG: Leaning about language features or sentence construction.
2- Reading based activities.
3- Speaking activities, based on interpreting and discussing a Whakataukī or other active games
Solliquy: “The raven himself is hoarse”
(from Macbeth, spoken by Lady Macbeth)
The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements. Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full
Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood,
Stop up th' access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry "Hold, hold!"
Kia Ora Year 9, this week we are carrying on reading the text Macbeth By William Shakespeare. We are going to concentrate on the characters of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth. Their actions and motivations! You have a character sheet in your google drive to fill out as we go along.
Do Now
Wed
Introduce a character then have something unusual interrupt their routine.
Thurs
How do they respond? How does the situation become challenging?
Friday
What happens in the end? Does the character end up better, worse, or the same?
Every lesson we begin with a 'Do Now'. The type of activity will follow a 3 week cycle
1- Writing in our journal- Big statement prompt or other writing based activities EG: Leaning about language features or sentence construction.
2- Reading based activities.
3- Speaking activities, based on interpreting and discussing a Whakataukī or other active games
Kia Ora Year 9- Duncan has been murdered! We know who did it, but will anyone else find out or guess? This week we are going to dive into the reactions of the other characters to the news of Duncan's death. We are then going to continue reading.....who is crowned king? Below you will find the lesson slides 73-84 nd our Do nows for this week.
Every lesson we begin with a 'Do Now'. The type of activity will follow a 3 week cycle
1- Writing in our journal- Big statement prompt or other writing based activities EG: Leaning about language features or sentence construction.
2- Reading based activities.
3- Speaking activities, based on interpreting and discussing a Whakataukī or other active games
Dow Now-
Skimming and scanning -
When you want to know what the general idea or topic you need to be able to skim a page quickly to find out. You can look at the pictures, title or heading, any boxed or highlighted sections. When you want to find specific information of an answer to a question you scan a text for a keyword.
Do now- Inferences
On the lines, is the literal informtion that you read- what is happening/actions, what the author describes.
Between the lines, is what is implied by the actions or descritions- what can you tell about how the characters are feeling? What are their personalities?
Beyond the lines- is how you connect to the situation or reading as a whole- does it remind you of something you have experiences?
Kia Ora Yr 9, this week we are going to find out who has been crowned KING of Scotland, now that both of Duncan's sons have fled. What are Macbeth and Lady Macbeth up to after they murdered Duncan? We find out! Also Banquo gets a nasty surpise.....The witches are also back....we find out the next information they give to Macbeth.
Can you answer this? What is the INFERENCE or BETWEEN THE LINES to the stormy weather in the play?
Every lesson we begin with a 'Do Now'. The type of activity will follow a 3 week cycle
1- Writing in our journal- Big statement prompt or other writing based activities EG: Leaning about language features or sentence construction.
2- Reading based activities.
3- Speaking activities, based on interpreting and discussing a Whakataukī or other active games
Have a go-blooket quiz
Student work- The three statements when Macbeth goes back to the witches after killing Duncan and seeing his ghost at the banquet.
Kia Ora Year 9, this week we are going to do a deep dive into the demise of Lady Macbeth. We will reflecgt on her final monologue and then learn to write a SEXY paragraph about how she changes- ON, BETWEEN and BEYOND the lines. Have a look at last week- all your amazing work in on display.
Wednesday
Watch the two version of Lady Macbeth's monologue from Act 5
Which version to you like best and why
THREE reasons
Every lesson we begin with a 'Do Now'. The type of activity will follow a 3 week cycle
1- Writing in our journal- Big statement prompt or other writing based activities EG: Leaning about language features or sentence construction.
2- Reading based activities.
3- Speaking activities, based on interpreting and discussing a Whakataukī or other active games
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Lesson tasks- you have a copy of the planning sheet in your English folder on google drive
Use these the Act 1 Scene 5 soliloquy and the Act 5 Scene 1 monlogue below to help you with the examples
Kia Ora Year 9 , this week we revise how to write a SEXY paragraph and we find out what happens in the end of the play. On Friday's lesson, please bring a newspaper....all will be revealed. We will spend the first two weeks next term on our assessment.
No do nows this week - the paragraph template is in your English folder on google drive