King_Lear_Resource_Pack.pdf. Rsc-shakespeares-language-2011.pdf. Www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson1031/terms.pdf. Kinglear.pdf. Full Lear Guide in Indesign.pdf. Www.folger.edu/documents/Page 2-KL Family Tree.pdf. Nothing to Lear but Lear Himself -Folger Shakespeare Library. April 2002 Ron Clark, Rocky Mountain High School, Fort Collins, Colorado. Plays/Scenes CoveredKing Lear What's On for Today and Why In this introductory lesson, students will read a scene from King Lear and decide collaboratively how best to present it.
In doing so, they will begin to understand the scenes and the play from multiple perspectives. This lesson is based on a session given by Michael Collins at the Folger's summer 2000 Teaching Shakespeare Institute. This lesson will take two class periods. What You Need Folger edition of King Lear Available in Folger print edition and Folger Digital Texts Copies of the handout: Documents: Two Scenes from King Lear What To Do 1. 2. 2. 3. 4. 5. How Did It Go? If you used this lesson, we would like to hear how it went and about any adaptations you made to suit the needs of YOUR students. "Speak What We Feel, Not What We Ought to Say" -Folger Shakespeare Library. February 2002 Heidi Pasternak, Belmont High School, Belmont, Massachusetts Plays/Scenes CoveredKing Lear. However, this lesson could easily be adapted to any of Shakespeare's plays. What's On for Today and Why A playwright—by frequently limiting character description to dialogue—leaves a large portion of the process of interpreting the character to the actor and director.
This vagueness can cause stress in students who prefer to "know the answers" right away, but it also offers teachers a wonderful way to engage students in creating their own interpretations. In this lesson, students will use the text and their imaginations to understand a particular character. Aspects of this lesson were inspired by Caleen Sinette Jennings and Michael Tolaydo of the Folger Shakespeare Library's Teaching Shakespeare Institute in Summer 2000. This lesson will take two class periods. What You Need Folger edition of King Lear Available in Folger print edition and Folger Digital Texts What To Do 1. 2. 3. 4. Teaching King Lear-Folger Shakespeare Library. Teaching Modules Folger Education offers teaching modules on Shakespeare's frequently taught plays, as well as modules on introducing Shakespeare.
Try the modules below, or, for more modules for King Lear, visit the Teaching Modules Archive. "Speak What We Feel" In this lesson plan, you'll cover NCTE standards 3, 4, 7, 11, and 12. Working in groups, students explore character interpretation, motivation, and relationships. "Nothing to Lear but Lear Himself" This interactive lesson plan encourages students to engage with the text on a physical and vocal level. Teaching Tools The Folger edition of King Lear includes facing-page notes and illustrations throughout the play, fascinating essays on the play, Shakespeare's life, theater, and times, and notes on unfamiliar language, or words that meant something different in Shakespeare's day.
Other Resources Seeing Shakespeare performed, or performing Shakespeare, can help students feel confident reading and understanding Shakespeare's language. Quest/collections/sites/divans-hutchinson_yvonne1/yvonne scans/readingshakespearealoud.pdf. Grant Edwards sur Twitter : "Looking fwd to our final discussion of #KingLear in #HumVSPS C block tomorrow, followed by their scene presentations! Page 2-KL Family Tree.pdf. KING LEAR by William Shakespeare - FULL AudioBook | Greatest Audio Books (Dramatic Reading V1) King Lear. Grant Edwards sur Twitter : "#HumVSPS C block examined #dualities in #KingLear today - #Empowered v. #Neutered... Grant Edwards sur Twitter : "#HumVSPS C block examined #dualities in #KingLear today - #Natural v. #Unnatural...
Grant Edwards sur Twitter : "#HumVSPS C block examined #dualities in #KingLear today - #Sanity v. #Madness... Grant Edwards sur Twitter : "#HumVSPS C block examined #dualities in #KingLear today - #Sight v. #Blindness... The Scourge of "Relatability" - The New Yorker. If Twitter is a place in which a user may be rewarded for exposing his most stupid self, Ira Glass put the medium to good use this week, when, after watching John Lithgow appear as King Lear at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park, he tweeted his response: “Shakespeare sucks.” Glass admired Lithgow’s performance but thought the play flawed.
“No stakes, not relatable,” he wrote. Later, he tweeted that the productions of “Richard III” and “Twelfth Night” in which he had seen Mark Rylance perform last winter had affected him similarly: “fantastic acting, surprisingly funny, but Shakespeare is not relatable, unemotional.” The suckiness or otherwise of Shakespeare is a topic that cannot be broached without generating considerable online outrage, and Glass later backtracked, telling Entertainment Weekly that his provocative comment was “kind of an off-the-cuff thing to say that in the cold light of day, I’m not sure I can defend at all.” Whence comes relatability?