Mr Legowski’s Yr 7 Witches in the Movies homework – due Wednesday 16 December

Click on the link* to the Google Doc below and add your comments about the stagecraft focus you had in today’s lesson. Put your name in brackets after each comment you make.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JY9w_pp3eLBny0mNCVcs5QT-dlrx0jFPaxTv3zTD3bw/edit?usp=sharing

(*If there is no hyperlink for the above, copy and paste it into the URL bar at the top of the screen and hit ‘enter’.)

Each student should complete a row of comments but try not to repeat what has already been written.

Deadline: Friday 11 December.

Here are the four different adaptations. Please note that the first video clip contains three separate versions of Act 1, scene 1 and the Shakespeare Retold continues beyond the witches scene: you’re only interested in the conversation between the bin men at the start.

Macbeth context presentations – Year 11 homework due Wednesday 1 October

In your Macbeth controlled assessment, you must ‘explain your understanding of the differences between the original context of the play and the context of your chosen adaptation’. The context means the time and place that it was written and performed. You will therefore ‘explain the relevance of the play and the adaptation for different audiences at different times’.

To enable you all to write with confidence about the context of the play and its adaptation (the Rupert Goold film starring Patrick Stewart), your homework task is to research and prepare a presentation on one of the topics below (depending on when your birthday falls). Your presentation will be given to the class on Wednesday 1 & Thursday 2 October and you can use either PowerPoint or prezi.com to accompany it. You may present to the class on your own or with a partner; absolutely no more than two students per presentation!

• The production and critical reception of Rupert Goold’s 2010 adaptation (birthdays in September to end-November)
• King James I and the supernatural (birthdays in December to end-February)
• The ‘real’ Macbeth in 11th century Scotland (birthdays in March to end-May)
• The theatre in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (birthdays in June to end-August)

Useful websites for your research are below

• http://www.shmoop.com/macbeth/movie.html (adaptation)
• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8194438/Terrifying-Macbeth-shows-Shakespeare-works-on-the-small-screen.html (adaptation)
• http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/patrick-stewart-how-we-filmed-macbeth-in-18-days-2152271.html?action=Gallery (adaptation)
• http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/theatre/the-macbeth-of-a-lifetime-7399601.html (adaptation)
• http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/macbeth/context.html (general)
• http://www.shmoop.com/Macbeth/ (general)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-PKotyoxys (general)
• http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/james-I-witchcraft.htm (supernatural)
• http://www.without-feathers.com/works/writing/prose/royal-play.php (supernatural/historical Macbeth)
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/macbeth.shtml (historical Macbeth)
• http://www.kingmacbeth.com/index.htm (historical Macbeth)
• http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/Duncan-MacBeth/ (historical Macbeth)
• http://writersinspire.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/elizabethan-and-jacobean-theatres-2/ (Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre)