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LESSON

Let us Question: The Play's Focus

Overview

4 Activities
  • Key Stage 4
  • 1 hour
Key questions
  • Can I deliver a compelling and cohesive argument, giving my personal response to the play?
Key words
  • ambition
  • appearances versus reality
  • bravery
  • brutality
  • children
  • duality
  • fate
  • 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. Give an informed personal response to the text, making use of evidence and maintaining a critical style (AO1)
  2. Analysis of language, form, structure (AO2)
  3. Contextual awareness (also, spoken language component assessment objectives and GCSE English Language skills) (AO3)

In this lesson