King Lear A-Level Extract Analysis

King Lear annotated extracts. These worksheets are designed to help GCE English Literature students practise extract analysis/annotation in preparation for analysing a specific extract in the exam. There are differentiated resources per extract depending on pupils’ ability and the learning intention of the lesson. Each extract has a specific question attached to it. The duration of the worksheet will depend on the learning intention of the lesson, but would take approximately 15-25 minutes to annotate and go through as a class as a revision activity.

There are three versions of each sheet:

• blank extract and the question for use as an individual assessment
• differentiated highlighted version to guide less confident students towards important quotations
• highlighted and annotated version as a teacher guide, a good example of annotation to display to pupils/for self-assessment, or a revision handout to give to pupils

There are five annotated extracts, one from each act.

Act 1 - Lear banishes Cordelia
Act 2 - Lear’s knights are taken away from him by Goneril and Regan
Act 3 - Lear facing the storm
Act 4 - Lear reawakens after being rescued by Cordelia
Act 5 - Edgar enters to challenge Edmund to a duel

If you have found these useful, take a look at the revision materials that accompany the text, also available in my shop:

• Revision PowerPoint: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13013430

• Revision materials: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12969963

• Critical Approaches: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12970159