Interpreting Shakespeare Using Comic Strips Lesson Plan

Specific Objectives To Meet Goals:

Students will be able to work collectively using technological resources.
Students will be able to use resources effectively.
Students will be able to better understand and retain Shakespearean poetry.
Students will be able to interpret text in their own words.
Common Core Standards (General Objectives):
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.2:
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the
course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details;
provide an objective summary of the text.
ISTE / NETS-T Standards: 1 b: Create original works as a means of personal or group
expression. (1 b,c: 2 a, b: 3 b,c: 6 a,b)
Motivational Techniques: To understand and prove their knowledge of King Lear.
Resources:
http://www.folger.edu/shakespeares-theater
https://www.college.columbia.edu/core/node/1763

http://www.12eyes.co.uk/caroline/ordwomen
Procedure for the Lesson:

Students enter the class and count off from 1-8 to decide groupings (based on a class
size of 25).

Students would divide into groups of two or three.

Each group picks a different scene from one of the five acts of King Lear. There will be
repeat Acts, but no two groups can use the same scene.

Groups will go to storyboardthat.com and make a comic strip of a scene and put the
dialogue into modern vernacular. However, students have to stick to the original meter of
the play.

Students are required to use the provided resources to get a feel for the time period and
the history behind King Lear to make certain that their scenes are authentic to the
original work.

They will present their work to the class by acting out their scene.

Groups are required to write a reflection paper explaining the process and why they
chose their scenes, characters, and sources.

Academic Language: Analyzing and presenting

Assessment Methods: Group projects would be graded on the accuracy of the interpretation of
the text, whether all the requirements were met for their projects, and the organization of their

presentations. When writing the reflection papers, proper MLA citation methods should be
exercised along with a works cited page.