Shakepeare and Beyond: Toil and Trouble-Recipes and the Witches in Macbeth

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Grade Range: 8 - 11

This blog post compares the housewives of the 17th and 18th centuries with the witches in Macbeth. Learn a little about the life of a housewife and what might cause her to be accused of being a witch.

In the Classroom

Use the information learned from this brief blog post to have your students further investigate 17th and 18th century recipes, or Matthew Hopkins and the individual women he accused to being a witch. Enhance student learning by asking them to post what they learned, verbally, using Flipgrid, <a href="/single.cfm?id=17677">reviewed here</a>. Besure to have peers comment on each others’ postings.

At Home

Tags

macbeth, shakespeare,

Subjects

English, History & Culture: Europe, Language Arts,