Download File - How to teach Macbeth

Oh Fie! A Test
You can use your copy of the play
• Fill in the blank quotes
• Find lines showing examples of
literary techniques. E.g. “Find a line
that shows irony.”
• Explain connections between a
quote, and the play as a whole.
Learning goals:
1. Try strategies for reading
Shakespearean language
2. Get familiar with the characters
and themes in Macbeth
Act V Quiz
Act V Quiz
Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why,
then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my
lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we
fear who knows it, when none can call our power to
account?--Yet who would have thought the old man
to have had so much _____ in him.
Act V Quiz
Bring me no more reports; let them fly all:
Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,
I cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm?
Was he not born of woman? The spirits that know
All mortal consequences have pronounced me thus:
'Fear not, Macbeth; no man that's born of woman
Shall e'er have _____ upon thee.'
Act V Quiz
Let every soldier hew him down a ______
And bear't before him: thereby shall we shadow
The numbers of our host and make discovery
Err in report of us.
Act V Quiz
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying ______.
Act V Quiz
I will not yield,
To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet,
And to be baited with the rabble's curse.
Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane,
And thou opposed, being of no woman born,
Yet I will try the last. Before my body
I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,
And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, ______!'
Dench Sleepwalking
Act V Reading Questions
Act V Reading Questions
Act 5, Scene 1
1. In this scene, Lady Macbeth is seen
sleepwalking. She keeps trying to wash her
hands, but says she can’t get the blood off.
Do you think the cause of her disturbance
is supernatural, or psychological?
Act V Reading Questions
2. In your opinion, how has Lady Macbeth
changed since the beginning of the
play?
Act V Reading Questions
Act 5, scene 2
3. The army rebelling against Macbeth marches
toward Birnham wood to meet Malcolm and
the English army.
Which is the best way to usurp a throne,
Macbeth’s method (murder in the night), or
Malcolm’s (full army battle)?
Act V Reading Questions
Act 5, scene 3
4. How do you think Macbeth feels about
his chances of winning?
Act V Reading Questions
Act 5, scene 4
5. Malcolm orders his army to cut down
branches to carry, using the trees in
Birnham wood. Does this remind you of
anything?
Act V Reading Questions
Act 5, scene 5
6. Describe Macbeth’s reaction to the
news that Lady Macbeth has died.
She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Act V Reading Questions
Act 5, scene 7
7. Wow. That’s a pretty crazy battle, eh?
Act V Reading Questions
Act 5, scene 8
8. What terrifying thing does Macbeth
learn about Macduff?
Act V Reading Questions
9. Will Malcolm be as good a king as
Macbeth?
Let’s watch Act V
Disturbing your
understanding
• Historically, Macbeth was a good king, who
had a long, prosperous and peaceful reign
• Could Lady Macbeth have been kidnapped?
• What happened to her child?
• Midwifery vs. patriarchy
• Witch trials