The goal of the Shakespeare Club is to study and analyze a Shakespearean play and to share our discussions with our school and the community via an online blog format. Blog responses will be based on reader response prompts that can be viewed below. The play that the Shakespeare Club will be looking at is King Lear.
Teacher Constructed Response Prompts
Experiential Prompts
How do you relate to this scene to your own life?
How does (name a character) remind you of someone you know?
How does (name a character) remind you of some other character you have met in a book?
Aesthetic Prompts
How does this scene make you feel?
How would you feel if you were (name a character) in this situation?
Cognitive Prompts
If you were (name a character), what would you do in this situation?
What advice would you give (name a character) at this point in the story?
Interpretive Prompts
What meaning or message does this scene have for you?
Why do you believe (name of character) did or did not make the right choice?
What do you think is the significance of the following quote? ("Quote text")
What kind of person do you think (name of character) is? How do you know?