King Lear Quotation Activity for Acts 1, 2, 3

Engraved by Richard Earlom, 1792 based on a painting by Johann Heinrich Füssli

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Each student chose four quotations in class on Monday, March 28.
Complete the following and bring it to class on Wednesday, March 30.

For each of the four quotations...
1. Identify speaker, act, scene, lines (e.g. if you chose the first line of the play: Kent, 1.1.1) You might use this website to help you find the lines.
2. Describe the context: who is present? what is the situation? What might any of this have to do with the quotation?
3. Identify images (both literal and figurative) and themes. Discuss the significance of the imagery, themes and (more generally) the quotation.
4. Make connections between the quotation and your other quotations. (And/or make other connections.) Connections might have to do with speaker, events, imagery, themes.

Going After Cacciato: Making Meaning (beginning with the end)

In class on Friday you spent five to ten minutes responding to these prompts: 1. explain your understanding of the end -- "The End of the Road to Paris," "The Observation Post," and "Going After Cacciato" & 2. explain how you got to that understanding.

Then we had rich conversations about your responses to the prompts...and more. (I enjoyed it and hope it wasn't so bad for you.)

Follow up on the class conversation with a blog post. Explore possibilities. Construct meaning. Ask questions. Follow up on what others have said and have written. What did you notice? What might it mean?

Post your comment(s) by class time on Monday, March 7. I look forward to reading your take.