DOUBLE DOUBLE TOIL AND TROUBLE

Teacher Pack

Aim: To introduce Shakespeare in a fun, non-threatening way and to encourage the enjoyment of looking deeper into meaning and context.

The students are initially taken into the world of Harry Potter where the song Double Double Toil and Trouble is featured and then asked to examine in some detail the rhythm and meaning of the song. The song becomes separated from the context of Harry Potter. Depending on the nature of your group you can decide whether to introduce the context of Macbeth and then finally Shakespeare.

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Activity 1 (power point: slide 1)

Harry Potter clip

Watch the clip from Harry Potter movie where various scenes from Harry Potter are featured and the song Double Double Toil and Trouble is sung and the words given.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2xfpoQx6oI

Short brainstormFind out what the students know and highlight wizardry, witchcraft and spells and potions.Ask questions such as: Where is this clip from?...Which film?What happens at Hogwarts - what are the pupils learning about?Expected response: Wizardry and witchcraft.- spells and potions.

Watch the clip again, this time asking the students to concentrate on the words at the bottom of the screen. While they do this, hand out their worksheets.

Activity 2 (power point slides: 2-7 and student pack: page 2)

Read through the song. Relatively quickly, explain meaning with the help of visuals aids on the power point. The same pictures are also provided on the work sheets. While the students work through the song ask them to draw lines from the pictures on their work sheets to the text they belong to. Point out that these are the ingredients going in the pot!

Activity 3 (power point slides: 8-9)Point out the rhythm of the song. Easy to write music to. Also possible to put in a rap. Use rap example from Youtube to illustrate this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CDYxLUls3g&list=RDWWXWHgUVWks

Activity 4 (power point slide: 10 and student pack: page 3)On the 3rd page of the work sheets Double Double Toil and Trouble is presented again but this time with gaps so that the students can put in their own ingredients.

Working in duos or individually the students can make their own potions. They can think about using:- bits of people / animals / plants - perhaps from interesting places.- write and draw if they like- rhyme and rhythm (but not a priority)- singing / speaking/ rapping - however they would like to present their potion Option – to have each duo present their potion to the whole class

This can be the end of the activity. Now there is an option to look further into where the “song” comes from. i.e. Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

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Activity 5 (power point: slides 12-15)

Introduce by means of the power point some background to Macbeth.

Something wicked this way comes…. Macbeth.

Summary of play:3 witches tell Macbeth he will become King of Scotland. He believes them and kills everyone in his way. BUT he becomes mad with guilt. In the end his head is cut off. Really violent and bloody play.Curse:Actors don’t call it Macbeth but the Scottish play!The “song” comes from a scene where the 3 witches are making a potion just before Macbeth comes in.

Activity 6 (power point slide 16 and student pack: pages 4-5)

In groups of 4: 3 witches and a Macbeth.Students to read through the modern version, taking the parts. Then read through the Old version.

The Old version – has the nice rhythm!The students to help each other with meaning and / or ask the teacher for guidance.

Option to rehearse and act out for class / project.Cauldron in centre. All students join together for ALL option to use own ingredients or Shakespeare’s words.

Option: also possible to limit the text to that most close to the Harry Potter text.

CONCLUSION

Activity 7 (power point slide 17 and student pack: page 6)

Who wrote this? – a history timeline

Using power point and the time line provided show the history of MACBETH up to Harry Potter. With use of questions and answers and animations in the power point engage the students:Show on power point – student can also complete their timelines in the hand out.

When did the Harry Potter film: Prisoner of Azkaban come out?

Who wrote the Scottish Play?

When did Shakespeare write the Scottish Play?

When was the real Macbeth born?

How many years are there between Macbeth’s birth and Double Double Toil and Trouble appearing in the Harry Potter film: Prisoner of Azkaban?

Activty 8 (power point slide: 18)

Harry Potter and Macbeth:What they have in common:Scotland, Witches, Castles

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….. Double, Double, Toil and Trouble.

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Sources:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qv-sjQHgZ8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4cMHnWIR9k http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth http://www.britroyals.com/scots.asp?id=macbeth http://flocabulary.s3.amazonaws.com/pdfs/macbeth-summary-exercises.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CDYxLUls3g&list=RDWWXWHgUVWks

http://nfs.sparknotes.com/macbeth/page_134.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2xfpoQx6oI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o50DnsD8YTA

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DOUBLE DOUBLE TOIL AND TROUBLE

Student pack

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Double, double, toil and troubleFire burn and cauldron bubble.

Double, double, toil and trouble;Something wicked this way comes!

Eye of newt and toe of frog,Wool of bat and tongue of dog,

Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing.

Double, double, toil and trouble;Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Double, double, toil and trouble;Something wicked this way comes!

In the cauldron boil and bake, Fillet of a fenny snake,

Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witches' mummy, maw and gulf.

Double, double, toil and trouble;Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Something wicked this way comes!

COOK UP YOUR OWN POTION

Double, double, toil and troubleFire burn and cauldron bubble.

Double, double, toil and trouble;Something wicked this way comes!

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hard work

Double, double, toil and trouble;Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Double, double, toil and trouble;Something wicked this way comes!

In the cauldron boil and bake,

Double, double, toil and trouble;Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Double, double, toil and trouble;Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Something wicked this way comes!

The Scottish Play(1607)

ORIGINAL TEXT MODERN TEXT

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The Scottish Play Timeline________ Macbeth born

1040 Macbeth becomes King of Scotland1057 Macbeth killed during a battle

1587 Holinshed’s Chronicles describes the history of Macbeth

_______ Macbeth written by ____________________1611 First recorded performance at the Globe Theatre in

London

________ Harry Potter – Prisoner of Azkaban (_______ years after Macbeth’s birth)

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