Macbeth Scene
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore how to adapt and perform a soliloquy taken from the play of Macbeth written by Shakespeare to illustrate a character’s thoughts and emotions about an event in the story.
The class can identify and define the meaning of vocabulary words used in the play script to adapt and change the soliloquy to illustrate different themes and ideas.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to adapt and perform a soliloquy taken from the play of Macbeth written by Shakespeare to illustrate a character’s thoughts and emotions about an event in the story
Activities in this teaching pack include shared reading texts to describe the sequence of events and character development in a play by Shakespeare and how to adapt and perform a character soliloquy taken from a play written by Shakespeare and a worksheet to investigate the language used in a speech given by a character from a play by Shakespeare.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to adapt and perform a character soliloquy taken from the play of Macbeth written by Shakespeare.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate the structure and format of different scenes extracted from plays by William Shakespeare to use for drama performances. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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