'King Lear' revision webinar
Links and resources from my webinar with Tralee Education Support Centre on the evening of Wednesday 16th October. Registration link.
Summary of resources on the play.
Thinking about King Lear: 17 quotation grids for discussion, and stimulating thoughts about the play.
King Lear scene by scene: podcast series with transcripts (completed in December). Spotify link to first episode lower down.
Quotation retrieval grids: template in Word. An explanation using Macbeth.
On the mistaken idea of ‘rote learning’ in Leaving Certificate English. A further version of this in an Irish Times article.
On ‘desirable difficulties’: Jade Pearce and Isaac Moore’ recent book in the Action series is clear, snappy and helpful.
Sequence grids templates in Word: An explanation of the process using Hamlet. Plus extending this to revising individual characters (Gertrude, Ophelia, Claudius).
Word template for sequence 1 (key moments and associated quotations).
Word template for sequence 2 (some sections empty for testing).
Word template for sequence 3 (reverse-engineer key moments from significant quotations).
Swiss Army Knife (exploding) quotations, using a statement by Lady Macbeth.
Brain Dump: A small strategy with a big impact by Pooja K. Agarwal from Retrieval Practice: Unleash the Science of Learning.
Higher Level literature self-assessment document.
Emma Smith: This is Shakespeare - my notes on the King Lear chapter. Her Oxford University lecture (via the Approaching Shakespeare podcast series) which was the basis of that chapter.
James Shapiro’s 1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear - my notes.
Comments on the 100 for 100 Macbeth by Stuart Pryke and Amy Staniforth.
LitDrive presentation on teaching the end of the play.
My essay on Caravaggio’s ‘The Taking of Christ’ and King Lear.
My essay on the bleakness of the play’s vision.
My essay on blindness in the play.
My essay on the cheerless, comfortless and dark end of the play.
