ABSTRACT

The Teaching Success Guide for the Advanced Placement Classroom series helps teachers motivate students above and beyond the norm by introducing investigative, hands-on activities, including debates, role-plays, experiments, projects, and more, all based on Advanced Placement and college-level standards for learning.

King Lear is a user-friendly guide to teaching one of Shakespeare's classic plays and includes field-tested and proven methods for assigning daily interpretive readings, leading intriguing seminar discussions, and connecting the play to modern-day poetry and social media platforms, plus many more resources for enhancing the study of Shakespeare in Advanced Placement and pre-AP courses.

Grades 7-12

chapter Chapter 1|8 pages

Introduction

chapter Chapter 2|9 pages

Why Teach King Lear?

chapter Chapter 3|41 pages

Reading King Lear

chapter |29 pages

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chapter |3 pages

Lesson Plan 1

chapter Chapter 4|43 pages

Understanding King Lear

chapter |33 pages

Chapter Materials

chapter |10 pages

Lesson Plan 2

chapter |22 pages

Lesson Plan 3

chapter Chapter 5|25 pages

Performing King Lear

chapter |15 pages

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chapter |14 pages

Lesson Plan 4

chapter Chapter 6|26 pages

Talking About King Lear

chapter |12 pages

Chapter Materials

chapter |4 pages

Lesson 5

chapter |7 pages

Lesson Plan 6

chapter Chapter 7|30 pages

Writing About King Lear

chapter |6 pages

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