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Carlton le Willows learning cycle - English
GCSE English Literature - Shakespeare
Topic
Students to study a play by Shakespeare for the literature paper 1 examination.
One of the following plays can be studied: Macbeth; Romeo and Juliet; The Tempest; The Merchant of Venice; Much Ado About
Nothing; Julius Caesar
Overarching CCQ
Can you successfully answer an exam style question making reference to the whole text and using context?
Knowledge / Skill areas
AO1
Read, understand and respond to texts. Students should be able to:
• maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response.
• use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations.
AO2
Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where
appropriate.
AO3
Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written.
AO4
Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation.
Unit Specific CCQs
What are the key scenes of the play?
Who are the key characters?
What are the key themes?
How does Shakespeare use language in this play?
How does Shakespeare use stagecraft in this play?
What are the contexts of the play?
How does context affect our understanding of the play?
How would Shakespeare’s audience have reacted to themes or characters?
How does a contemporary audience react to themes or characters?
What does a successful answer look like?
What does x extract reveal about characters/ themes?
Text specific CCQs
Romeo and Juliet
How does Romeo and Juliet fit the genre of tragedy?
Why does Shakespeare tell the audience the ending of the play
in the prologue?
How does Shakespeare use dramatic irony throughout the play?
How can Romeo be classed as a Petrarchan lover?
How does Shakespeare use light and dark as symbols of love in
the play?
Explain Friar Lawrence's role in the play. Do you think he has a
positive or negative effect?
Do you think the Montagues are good parents?
Explain Juliet's relationship with her parents and how it changes
through the play?
How does Shakespeare present the relationship between the
Nurse and Juliet?
What do you think about the play's portral of love? Is it always
positive? Is it always realistic?
How important is the role of fate I the plot of Romeo and Juliet
How does Shakespeare show that Romeo's love for Rosaline is
probably courtly love?
How does Shakespeare show that family is important in Romeo
and Juliet?
How does Shakespeare use language and dramatic structures
to make the balcony scene romantic?
How does Shakespeare use the characters of Benvolio and
Tybalt to show the feud between the two families?
Give examples of ways in which religion was powerful in
Shakespeare's time
How does the audience know that the play won't have a happy
ending?
How does Shakespeare explore ideas of love and desire in
Romeo and Juliet?
Macbeth
How does Macbeth fit into the tragedy genre?
Does Macbeth have a fatal flaw?
How does Shakespeare use the motifs of blood and milk to highlight
gender in the play?
Is Macbeth a play about the deceptive nature of appearances?
Why does Shakespeare use the symbols of light and dark in the play?
Is Lady Macbeth evil?
Does Macbeth’s ambition cause his downfall or his need for power?
How does Lady Macbeth use logos and pathos to persuade Macbeth?
Why do you think Shakespeare starts the play with the witches?
Do you think Shakespare presents Duncan as a good king?
What do we learn about the relationship between Macbeth and Lady
Macbeth in Act I?
What techniques does Shakespeare use to increase suspense during Act
2?
What impression does Shakespeare give of Macbeth's state of mind in
Act 3 Scene 2?
Does Shakespeare suggest that Malcolm has the characteristics of a
good King?
Why do you think Shakespeare chose to include Lady Macduff's murder
in the play?
How does Macbeth's character change over the course of the play?
What role does dramatic irony play in Macbeth?
Is Banquo an ambitious character?
How does Shakespeare make the structure of Macbeth exciting?
How does Lady Macbeth's character contrast with Lady Macduff's?
Images of night and darkness are used frequently in the play. What
effect do they have?
What role does foreshadowing play in Macbeth?
What do you think visions and hallucinations add to the play?
Do you think that Macbeth is a brave character?
Do you think that Lady Macbeth is more manipulative than the witches?
How does Shakespeare show Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's relationship
changing as the play goes on?
Vocabulary scaffolding
Subject terminology:
play, dramatic irony, context, soliloquy, character, act, scene, line, Petrarchan, Iambic pentameter, aside, imagery, hyperbole,
personification, metaphor, simile, verse, rhyme, meter, monologue, enjambment, Jacobean, Elizabethan, speech, alliteration,
malapropism, oxymoron, renaissance, audience, sub-plot, tragedy, hero, ambition, flaw, comedy, logos, pathos, great chain of being, anti-
hero, villain
Character pillar links
Home study tasks
Summative assessment
Determination, purposeful, curiosity
Appropriate homework as set by the class teacher.
Teacher assessment at the end of the unit.
Mocks as timetabled during the 2 year course.
Final external examination at the end of year 11.