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LESSON

Disdaining Fortune

Overview

5 Activities
  • Key Stage 4
  • 1 hour
Key questions
  • How does Shakespeare craft the equivocation of the witches and what does it reveal about the theme of fate?
Key words
  • Catalectic
  • Equivocation
  • Fate
  • Free Will
  • Homophone
  • Iambic pentameter
  • Pun
  • Supernatural
  • Symbolism
  • Tragic Hero
  • Trochee

Lesson objectives

  1. Maintain a critical style and give an informed personal response and interpretation (AO1)
  2. Analysis of symbolism (AO2)
  3. Language analysis (AO2)

In this lesson