Writing Your First Draft In this activity, you will play the role of a teacher who is helping students understand
Macbeth. First, you'll choose one scene from the play and create 12 to 18
annotations, or explanatory notes, to explain the meanings of words and figurative
language and to analyze the poetic structure. Then you'll write one or two
paragraphs explaining how Shakespeare's language supports the tone and character
development in the scene,
The following pages and your writing guide will help you. Be sure to fill in all the
questions in your writing gulde; by doing this, you'll have a draft of your assignment
by the end of this activity
This writing assignment will focus on the following skills: