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Title: Foolish Love, King Lear Grade: English 11-12 Curriculum: English/Language Arts Introduction: What if no justice is here, but no evidence that it's there? No, God, what society do you have? Task: To be able to identify the characters in King Lear and to be able to distinguish for yourself if King Lear acts foolishly because of his madness and can it be justified? Process: 1. As a class we will read Shakespeare's play, //King Lear//. 2. After each act please split into your groups and brainstorm about the characters. List each character in the Act and who they are in the play according to King Lear. Each group will present their thoughts to the class on the white board. 3. After discussing in class about the play, each group will act out a scenario of a parent or both parents acting foolishly towards their child. You will have 2 days to gather and come up with a scenario. There will be class time given to work together. 4. When the class activities are done, each student will get a scene in the play from //King Lear// and write a short paper (3-5 pages) of which character acted most foolishly and why. There will be a worksheet handed out in class of the details of what is needed to be included in the paper. 5. After the students have a full understanding of the play //King Lear// by doing the group work and turning in their paper, there will be another group project that uses their creative side. As a class or a group, according to class vote, we wil make a magazine cover about the play and each group or student will write up a short magazine article about something in the play. i.e the characters, love, the fool, etc.. (Please see the visual page for the magazine cover)

Evaluation: This project will be 150 points The class activity will be worth 20 points The acting out of the scenario will be worth 20 points. The paper will be worth 80 points. The magazine will be worth 30 points.

Conclusion: Congratulations! After this project you have now successfully been able to identify characters and their importance in a Shakespeare play. You have also been able to relate real world scenarios to what happens and why it happens in //King Lear.//

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