Beginning with this passage from Act 3.2, explore the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth through the whole play. LADY MACBETH How now, my lord! why do you keep alone,Of sorriest fancies your companions making,Using those thoughts which should indeed …
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On Macbeth: Link
I may be simply absurdly late to this party, but i found this today on twitter and can't recommend it enough. https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/daggerdrawn/2022/01/12/macbeth-in-terror-which-of-you-have-done-this-3-4-43-49-daggerdrawn-slowshakespeare/ I hope you find it useful. Read More "On Macbeth: Link"
Discursive writing – for y11
My teaching slides for y11 as we begin to ramp up the prep for GCSE... (includes a slide using a short film found on #LITDRIVE - brilliant but had to search for the clip because the youtube link had stopped …
Unlocking an unseen poem: Strategies at KS4
I have prepared a slide deck to help Yr 10 students who are finding approaching an unseen poem tricky. They write well, but find it hard to get a way into the poem in the first place. Two poems are …
Dramatic Irony and Birling: Character Building
When we think of dramatic irony, we tend to think of plays like Othello and focus on the idea of a response to the plot derived from the superior knowledge which the audience has over the characters involved. However, in …
J&H: a Marxist stimulus
A short PPt to explore ideas related to a Marxist reading of J&H. Work in progress. jand-h-contexts-1Download Read More "J&H: a Marxist stimulus"
Jekyll and Hyde: Contexts in pictures
A little slidedeck of images of London from 1880 to act as stimulus for discussion of AO3. jh-contexts-in-picturesDownload It is all too easy for students to imagine Jekyll's London much as today. Things to consider as they look at these: …
Jekyll and Hyde: how strange.
In a Queer Theory reading we should not be seeking to prove whether or not a character IS homosexual, but rather we should be looking for the coded signs which indicate the presence of homosexuality in the text. Just as …
Contexts in Jekyll and Hyde: Video
Please find this loom video to act as a commentary to the slide deck at Jekyll and Hyde: Contexts https://www.loom.com/share/243997508743484abdb5b2ebe25af32e https://www.loom.com/share/243997508743484abdb5b2ebe25af32e?sharedAppSource=personal_library Read More "Contexts in Jekyll and Hyde: Video"
Jekyll and Hyde: Contexts
This slide deck is to engage students in approaching AO3 - the context of creation in their writing about Jekyll and Hyde. In short, I am trying to get them to link contexts to the theme/character at the centre of …
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