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SUBJECT/Grade:Grade12UniversityEnglish(ENG4U) SuggestedTime:75min.
LESSONTITLE:StageDirectionsinKingLear
LESSONDescription:StudentswilllearnaboutKingLearfromadramaticperspectivetohelpthem
lookatthattheplayfromadifferentpointofviewandrememberwhenShakespearewrotetheplayit
wasoriginallymeanttobeviewed,notread.
PLANNING
Curriculum Connections
Overall Expectations:
Reading and Literature Studies
1. Reading for meaning
2. Understanding form and style
3. Reading with fluency
Writing
2. Using knowledge of form and style
Specific Expectations:
Making Inferences
1.4 make and explain inferences of increasing subtlety and insight about texts, including complex and
challenging texts, supporting their explanations with well-chosen stated and implied ideas from the
texts
Analysing Texts
1.6 analyse texts in terms of the information, ideas, issues, or themes they explore, examining how
various aspects of the texts contribute to the presentation or development of these elements
Text Features
2.2 identify a variety of text features and demonstrate insight into the way they communicate meaning
Developing Vocabulary
3.3 regularly use a variety of strategies to explore and expand vocabulary, discerning shadesof meaning
and assessing the precision with which words are used in the texts they are reading
Form
2.1 write for different purposes and audiences using a variety of literary, informational, and graphic
forms
Lesson Set-up
PowerPoint presentation ready and all handouts on the front desk.
Prior Learning
Covered all of Act 1 in King Lear know how to do proper analysis of the play to find meaning
LESSON
What Teachers Do: What Students Do:
Hook (10 minutes)
DiscussionQuestions
puttheDiscussionQuestionsslideonthe -think silently
boardasthestudentswalkintobeginthinking
Goovertheagendafortheclass -listen
beginandstructureawholeclassdiscussionby -discuss
usingthequestionsontheslideaspromptsforthe
class
Instruct the students to think about one thing they -Think silently until the bell
wish they would have included or that you liked
about someone elses prompt book or diagram
that you didnt include in your own and one thing
you noticed was unique about your prompt book
or that you liked.
Next Steps
Continue with Act 2 and use their new knowledge on stage directions throughout the analysis of the
play to add meaning and look at the play from a different perspective.
Personal Reflection