Teaching King Lear | Daily Lessons

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: Act 1, Scene 1: In King Lear, the early parts of the play, specifically the first scene, set up the plot for the whole play. This lesson is focused on learning what early parts of a story can tell the reader about the whole story. This is also called foreshadowing.

1) 1) As a class brainstorming activity: Have the class state their ideas about how they...
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