FINAL ADVICE

You now have everything I could possibly give you (short of writing the assignment for you!)

Remember, as a high ability class, a certain degree of the preparation comes from you. You should have been spending time re-reading the key scenes, rewatching the film, and finding differences/similarities between the two representations of Lady Macbeth.

High ability students such as yourselves should be able to have a good go at a task like this even without any of the notes or film analysis sheets that I have given you, so you are more than prepared.

Don't stress.

This assignment is worth 12% of your English Literature GCSE - just to put things into perspective. The exam you sat in the summer was worth 50%!!!!

Well done to everybody who came back for over an hour after school today to work on notes. You are all stars.

For those who couldn't make it, here is what we discussed.

Intro - Talk about how things have changed between 1606-2006 - Attitudes towards women - The rise of suffrage - Women in 1606 not even allowed to act - the confines of theatres - modern day effects etc.

Talk about anything that you see as being relevant to the different portrayal of LM. Talk about mental illness and how that is viewed as different now.

Then - Go on to focussing on your set scenes in turn. Try to write about 5 PEE paragraphs for each scene. The mark scheme says that you have to comment on:

LANGUAGE - What LM and other characters say, and how this is different

FORM - What sort of language they use/formality/power/who speaks most

STRUCTURE - How the play fits together, which bits are added, taken out etc.

Now not all of your points will fit into LANGAUGE, FORM or STRUCTURE. That is ok, but just make sure you comment on all of them quite a lot in your essay. FOCUS ON LANGAUGE. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT YOU INCLUDE LOTS OF QUOTES (But you knew that already!)

As for timings, you have 2 hours in total to do this, meaning it will probably be spread across 3 lessons.

For tomorrow's lesson simply focus on the intro and the first 2 set scenes. If you get on to commenting on Act 5 scene 1, you are rushing it - so spend time writing some fantastic notes for this over the weekend.

Now - over to you. Do your best and don't stress :)

NW