| Home : This is the student page with the main
links. |
| Insults: Use
this exercise in class to familiarize students with Shakespeare's language.
Also, by dividing the class into two lines and having the students shout
an insult at a particular student opposite them, students start to stand
up and become active. |
| Reading
Assignments: Students read the
play first by themselves only a few pages at a time so that they can look
up difficult parts. Then they hand in a writing assignment called point
of view writing where they become a character or create one, and they write
what happened in the scene or scenes they read. |
| Macbeth
Hyper-texts: Students can also
read the play on line. The first two links have good explanations of many
difficult parts. The third link is good for finding quotes to paste on
the student's inquiry web page. |
| Group
Work & Newspaper
Page: In class students read the play
outloud or listen to a tape of the scenes they haved already read at home.
Then they break into groups predetermined by the teacher and answer assigned
questions; each group usually answers one question a period and then a
student from the group places the group's answer on the blackboard. Students
take turns explaining the answers they have written for the rest of the
class.
The newspaper page is also written and planned
in groups in class after the entire play has been read. Then students can
publish either an on-line page or printed page. |
| Background: Students choose one of four background questions on the play, Macbeth, or on Shakespeare, or his theater. Using the provided links they take notes
on what they have learned to answer the one question they chose. After
writing a report answering the question in their own words they include
a bibliography of sources. (Students who do not have easy access to the
Internet need about two class periods in a school computer lab.) |
| Inquiry: Students
need to be in the computer lab for several periods to complete a web page
answsering one of nineteen questions on the play. Directions on how to
start their web page and use Microsoft Front Page Editor are provided in
this link. They must include quotations and explain the quotations in their
essay answer on the web page. Students can start to answer the question
they choose before they finish the play and then add and revise after the
play has been fully covered in class. |
