[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan focuses on the role of the witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth including background information about the fear of witches in Shakespeare's time, reading excerpts and answering questions to...

Literary Explorer features a language arts unit on William Shakespeare's "Macbeth." Includes teaching and learning strategies for this powerful play.

Lesson plan features a hands-on activity for uncovering the major plot points of "Macbeth."

This is a lesson on Elizabethan drama leading up the the reading of Shakespeare's Macbeth. It discusses the precursor mystery or morality plays including links to Everyman, the most famous of these. It continues with a discussion of how...

This lesson focuses on dramatic irony, when the reader or audience has more information about what is going to take place or what might develop in the story than the characters do.