Description
NEW RESOURCE:
In this three-part lesson, students are asked to organize the major events that occur in Shakespeare's King Lear, in chronological order, and then post them to a plot structure map. Using the map, students then write about WHY particular events act as the inciting event, climax, denouement, and resolution, based on given definitions of these terms.
This is a PDF that can be printed out. However, it also contains a link to a Google Slides document containing the three-part assignment for printing out or sharing with students for digital completion. The entire document can be edited.
- In Part 1, students are given major events of the work to organize chronologically. A puzzle at the bottom of Part 1 helps students check for accuracy in their chronological organization of the major events (so you don't have to), allowing them to fix errors as needed.
- In Part 2 students organize the chronologically-placed events on a Freytag's Plot Structure Map where students explain climax, denouement, and resolution in terms of the events of the work.
- In Part 3, basing their responses on information in the Plot Structure Map, students write 4-5 sentence paragraphs based on questions such as "How are two or more conflicts created as a result of the inciting event?" and "How does the conflict act as a turning point for the main character?"
- Answer keys are included with sample student responses.
- Grading rubric included.
Click here for more King Lear resources.
WHERE THIS LESSON FITS IN A LOGICALLY-CONSTRUCTED LITERARY UNIT:
- At the beginning of a full literary unit, I like to first have students complete a Meet the Author biography research document.
- Then, before students dive into the work, I want them to understand the difficult vocabulary they’ll encounter by having them complete a prereading vocabulary puzzle.
- Then, over the course of several weeks, students have reading assignments, take Sparknotes-proof Reading Quizzes and complete Character Maps on the work while working on other things—usually involving grammar, writing style, and literary devices.
- THIS is when I have students complete this Plot Structure Mapping lesson.
- After students have a clear grasp of plot analysis, I then begin having students focus on themes, motifs and symbols in the work through a Hexagonal Thinking game/lesson and develop a Literary Analysis Web in preparation for a literary analysis essay.
- From here, students should be quite capable of writing a literary argument essay on how the author utilizes these and other techniques to create meaning (themes) in the work. After a bit of peer editing & revising, this last essay serves as a cumulative assessment.
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KING LEAR - Analyzing Plot Structure 3-part lesson (PDF & SLIDES) NO PREP!
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Description
NEW RESOURCE:
In this three-part lesson, students are asked to organize the major events that occur in Shakespeare's King Lear, in chronological order, and then post them to a plot structure map. Using the map, students then write about WHY particular events act as the inciting event, climax, denouement, and resolution, based on given definitions of these terms.
This is a PDF that can be printed out. However, it also contains a link to a Google Slides document containing the three-part assignment for printing out or sharing with students for digital completion. The entire document can be edited.
- In Part 1, students are given major events of the work to organize chronologically. A puzzle at the bottom of Part 1 helps students check for accuracy in their chronological organization of the major events (so you don't have to), allowing them to fix errors as needed.
- In Part 2 students organize the chronologically-placed events on a Freytag's Plot Structure Map where students explain climax, denouement, and resolution in terms of the events of the work.
- In Part 3, basing their responses on information in the Plot Structure Map, students write 4-5 sentence paragraphs based on questions such as "How are two or more conflicts created as a result of the inciting event?" and "How does the conflict act as a turning point for the main character?"
- Answer keys are included with sample student responses.
- Grading rubric included.
Click here for more King Lear resources.
WHERE THIS LESSON FITS IN A LOGICALLY-CONSTRUCTED LITERARY UNIT:
- At the beginning of a full literary unit, I like to first have students complete a Meet the Author biography research document.
- Then, before students dive into the work, I want them to understand the difficult vocabulary they’ll encounter by having them complete a prereading vocabulary puzzle.
- Then, over the course of several weeks, students have reading assignments, take Sparknotes-proof Reading Quizzes and complete Character Maps on the work while working on other things—usually involving grammar, writing style, and literary devices.
- THIS is when I have students complete this Plot Structure Mapping lesson.
- After students have a clear grasp of plot analysis, I then begin having students focus on themes, motifs and symbols in the work through a Hexagonal Thinking game/lesson and develop a Literary Analysis Web in preparation for a literary analysis essay.
- From here, students should be quite capable of writing a literary argument essay on how the author utilizes these and other techniques to create meaning (themes) in the work. After a bit of peer editing & revising, this last essay serves as a cumulative assessment.
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* DON'T FORGET TO LEAVE FEEDBACK to get 5% of your purchase price back as TPT credits towards more TPT purchases.
