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English Renaissance in Context: King Lear Unit PlanEnglish Renaissance in Context: King Lear Unit Plan
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University of Pennsylvania
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9th - 10th
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English Renaissance in Context: King Lear

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Multimedia resource that examines the historical sources Shakespeare used when writing King Lear. Using primary source material, excerpts from the play are compared to its source documents. Questions are scattered among the material to check comprehension, and extended activities are provided at the end of the tutorial.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

king lear, william shakespeare

Additional Tags

english renaissance research, shakespeare, shakespeare context, shakespeare research, shakespeare study, works of william shakespeare, original shakespeare texts, summaries and analysis

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Common Core

RL.9-10.9 W.9-10.9.a RL.11-12.7

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