Teaching Macbeth: A Differentiated Approach - Softcover

Hawks, Lyn Fairchild

9780814151204: Teaching Macbeth: A Differentiated Approach

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814151205 ISBN 13: 9780814151204

Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), 2022

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Macbeth, a story of ambition, terror, and conscience, speaks to our students and our era. Through differentiated instruction, Lyn Fairchild Hawks offers ways to engage students with different readiness levels and interests in this timeless tale of fear and courage, order and chaos, guilt and remorselessness.

The book offers a wide range of exciting lesson ideas to challenge your learners and make Shakespeare relevant and meaningful to today's high school students.

Including:

Key scenes to teach
Big ideas and essential questions
Film analysis activities
Close reading assignments
Performance activities
Preassessments and summative assessments.

Macbeth can come alive for all students through independent reading options linked by theme, activities and projects mirroring professional roles, and relevance “hooks" to meet students' interests. Also included are a unit calendar, DIY tips for lesson design, and a companion website with more than forty ready-to-use handouts.

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About the Author

Lyn Fairchild Hawks writes young adult contemporary fiction and short stories about gifted, weird, and wise teens. She is the author of How Wendy Redbird Dancing Survived the Dark Ages of Nought, a young adult novel, and Minerda, a graphic novella and collaboration with illustrator Robin Follet. Lyn is the 2021 winner of the Norma Fox Mazer Award from Vermont College of Fine Arts' program in Writing for Children and Young Adults, a recipient of an Elizabeth George Foundation grant, and a James Jones First Novel Fellowship contest semifinalist. She is represented by Tara Gelsomino of One Track Literary.

In her other life, Lyn runs Success Story essay consulting, mentors young writers, and writes lessons for teachers. She's written Teaching Julius Caesar: A Differentiated Approach, and is co-author of The Compassionate Classroom: Lessons that Nurture Wisdom and Empathy and Teaching Romeo and Juliet: A Differentiated Approach.

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