Macbeth and Banquo’s Attitudes Toward the Supernatural: A Timeline

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A resource designed to help students engage with this AQA question at a whole text level. I wanted to create something that allowed students to easily see how the attitudes develop and change over the course of the play. I thought it might also be useful to discuss Duncan's words and how they may influence Macbeth's/Banquo's attitudes as they almost echo that of the witches. We also discussed the motif of harvest/growth for Banquo, I asked my class to read through the mini-extracts and highlight relevant quotations. We then discussed patterns, comparisons, changes and links in groups. They then added their final ideas to the planning sheet before writing their responses. Top tip: Do not print double-sided so that the students can easily refer to the quotations.