Teaching King Richard III | 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: Richard opens the play with a soliloquy filled with imagery and alliteration. This lesson will focus on this soliloquy and the literary devices used in the soliloquy, mainly alliteration and imagery.

1) 1. Before class, have the definitions of imagery and alliteration written on the board.
Imagery: The use of words to describe something else, but not in exact terms. (read more)