1st Edition

Advanced Placement Classroom King Lear

By R. Brigham Lambert Copyright 2012
    242 Pages
    by Prufrock Press

    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

    Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Why Teach King Lear? Chapter 3 Reading King Lear Chapter 4 Understanding King Lear Chapter 5 Performing King Lear Chapter 6 Talking About King Lear Chapter 7 Writing About King Lear Glossary Appendix A Notations on King Lear’s Literary Devices References Resources for Further Study About the Author Common Core State Standards Alignment

    Biography

    A National Board Certified Teacher and a Virginia Department of Education Teacher-as-Leader, Lampert has been nominated for several national commendations, including a 2008 Nobel Educator of Distinction selection by the National Society of High School Scholars and a 2006 Disney Teacher Award.