King Lear Worksheet

Unlock your students’ understanding of Shakespeare’s King Lear with this detailed and structured worksheet focused on Act 1 Scene 1. This resource is perfect for helping students engage deeply with the text, encouraging close reading and textual analysis.

Key Features:

Guided Questions with Embedded Quotes:
Students are prompted to answer key questions about the scene, with a selection of quotes provided to support their responses. This helps them practice using evidence from the text to back up their analysis, following the PEE (Point, Evidence, Explanation) structure.

Character Analysis:
Explore the motivations and emotions of key characters like Gloucester and King Lear. Students are encouraged to analyze Gloucester’s complex feelings toward his son Edmund and Lear’s reasons for dividing his kingdom.

Matching Exercise - Daughters’ Responses:
A creative and interactive task where students match each of Lear’s daughters (Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia) to the correct adjective that describes their nature, and then connect this to a corresponding quote from the text. This exercise aids in developing critical thinking and comprehension skills.