On the wings of wishes

Innovative lesson plan on Macbeth

Name of the teacher : Athira A JName of the subject : EnglishName of the unit : On the wings of wishesName of the subunit : MACBETH

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Reads and analyses the textImproves thinking facultyIdentifies the characters in the storyImproves thinking faculty

PHASE 1Have you ever visited a festival place ? What are the things that we can see there ? Let’s have a look….

Do you enjoy watching dramas?

Can you identify the person shown below? He is a great Sanskrit poet- author of Abhijnana Shakuntalam, and Meghasandhesham. He is also known as Indian Shakespeare.

Abhijnana Shakuntalam

PHASE 2Let me introduce to you the world famous dramatist, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

William Shakespeare is the greatest poet and dramatist of all

times. His major works include Macbeth ,Othello, King Lear etc.

Have you heard of globe theatre? The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company.

PHASE 3

So we are going to learn a drama titled ‘Macbeth’ written by Shakespeare. It’s in story form…

Now I welcome you to a new place (country).Here the story takes place.

PHASE 4(Teacher reads the paragraph with proper pronunciation and gives explanation)There was a king in Scotland whose name was Duncan.

The King’s Palace…

He was a very good and an ideal ruler. But some rebels started war against his rule. To put down the rebellion, the king sent two of his most skilful and trusted commanders, Macbeth and Banquo.

They took over the King’s army and defeated the rebels.

After the victory they were returning to the castle through one of the loneliest/ remote places in the country. Suddenly they were stopped by three strange- looking women . They were witches having magical powers.

The three witches…

PHASE 6

Difficult words(Students read the paragraph and find out the difficult words)

Chieftain- A Group Leader

Rebellion: an organised attempt to change the government or authority using violence.

PHASE 6Evaluation

Let’s revise what we learnt today…• Who was the king of Scotland? • Who were the trusted commanders?•Macbeth and Banquo meets the Three Witches. Sketch the scene.