About this product
LanguageEnglish
Edition TypeRegular Edition
Cover TypeSpiral-Bound
AuthorAmy Kathryn Craven
Quantity per Pack1
ISBN/ISSN978-0756013394
Product description
Macbeth Novel Guide Book
Teaching Unit with Lesson Plans, Activities, Discussion Questions, and Much More
Motivate your students to appreciate literary masterpieces. Novel Guides help students develop an understanding of literary techniques while building reading and critical thinking skills.
Includes:
•Journal writing
•Research
•Expository writing techniques
•Pre-reading questions
•Background information
•Chapter summaries
•Discussion questions
•Writing topics
•Grading rubric
•Final test
Follow this basic sequence of steps to ensure the smoothest course through the play:
1. Prepare your students to read by working through the Before We Start handouts.
a. Read through the background information to familiarize yourself with the play.
b. Print and hand out the Character List, Synopsis, Vocabulary Definition List, Novel Road
Map to Success, and Overall Grading Rubric to your students before they start reading.
c. Have your students complete the pre-reading questions to provide a firm foundation for
2. Target on Text contains everything you need as the students read. We have divided the
activities into four sections of roughly the same length. This provides the necessary stopping
places for review as students work their way through the text.
a. Read through the act summaries, target objectives, and lesson plan details located on the
Teaching Essentials page at the start of each section.
b. Print and hand out the activities provided in each section to your students as they read
c. Hold a class discussion at the end of each section to review what your students just read.
3. Reflect on Reading contains activities for students to complete after reading the play. In
this section, the students synthesize their learning
a. Hold a final class discussion with the 20 discussion questions.
b. Assign the activities.
c. Return to the pre-reading questions for an interesting debate on whether or not students’
original ideas and assumptions have changed.
d. Administer the final test.