Macbeth Year 9 English Homework Tasks Term Autumn

Macbeth Year 9 | English Homework Tasks | Term: Autumn 1 | Topic: Macbeth Instructions: Each week you will complete one piece of homework. This will be either one of the activities below, or revision from your Knowledge Organiser for a test in class. Your teacher will let you know what homework activity you are doing and when this should be handed in. Upload your written homework to Google Classroom: Year 9 English – Autumn 1 HW: Macbeth Class Code vjdzcut 1. Write a detailed description of the image below. 2. Creating a leaflet Write a detailed five-part plan before you begin: • Focus on using the five senses to paint a picture in the reader’s mind – touch, taste, sound, smell, sight. • Remember to use drop, shift, zoom in and zoom out to create interesting snapshots of detail. In your writing, make sure you use the following language methods: • Metaphor – comparing two things by saying one is the other • Personification – where an object is given the features or characteristics of a person • Alliteration – the repetition of consonant sounds. Design and create a one page leaflet informing a student about themes and motifs present in Macbeth. Remember to ask yourself the purpose, audience and format of your task. Use your knowledge organiser and lesson notes to help. You should use: • A catchy title and images. • A factual, formal, informative, style and tone. • Subject specific vocabulary, headings and subheadings Example: Themes and Motifs in ‘ Macbeth’ by William Shakespeare Introduction: Two of the key features in any Shakespearian play, are the use of themes and motifs. A theme can be defined as…… Due Date:

Macbeth Year 9 | English Homework Tasks | Term: Autumn 1 | Topic: Macbeth Instructions: Each week you will complete one piece of homework. This will be either one of the activities below, or revision from your Knowledge Organiser for a test in class. Your teacher will let you know what homework activity you are doing and when this should be handed in. Upload your written homework to Google Classroom: Year 9 English – Autumn 1 HW: Macbeth Class Code vjdzcut 3. Understanding Writer’s Methods 4. Writing a persuasive letter This year you are studying Macbeth. As a text it is Read the quotation made by Macbeth, in Act 1 Scene 7 below, when Macbeth is considering whether he could be full of love, ambition, power and drama. Write a king. Write it out and explode it. persuasive letter to the head of English at another Make sure that you label it for the writer’s methods and Secondary school persuading them that they the effect of each word choice. Also include any links to should also study Macbeth. themes, motifs or context. Some issues you may want to include are: ‘If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me ambition, drama and cross curricular links such as Geography, History and Citizenship. without my stir’ Think about the purpose, audience and format of When you have finished, write an extended MQA the task. paragraph to answer the question: Include 3 different ARRESTED persuasive How is the character of Macbeth presented in Act 1 methods: Scene 7 A – Alliteration R – Repetition R – Rhetorical Questions E – Emotive Language S – Statistics T – Tripling E – Exaggeration D – Direct Address Make sure that you develop your response by using the word ‘furthermore, ’ and considering the writer’s intended effect on the reader. Due Date: