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LESSON

Hark!: The Importance of Words

Overview

3 Activities
  • Key Stage 4
  • 1 hour
Key questions
  • How do Shakespeare’s word choices convey ideas and themes?
Key words
  • Duality
  • Fate
  • ambition
  • appearances versus reality
  • bravery
  • brutality
  • children
  • fear
  • gender
  • good and evil
  • heroism
  • hierarchy
  • honour
  • illness
  • kingship
  • loyalty and betrayal
  • nature
  • order
  • power/status
  • regicide
  • religion
  • sanity
  • supernatural
  • treachery
  • tyranny
  • violence

Lesson objectives

  1. Understand and respond to texts and make use of evidence (AO1)
  2. Analysis of language (AO2)

In this lesson