Everything you need to teach King Lear at A Level: 34 scene-by-scene teaching PowerPoints covering the whole play, plus 10 whole-play character and theme revision units – around 945 slides with full teacher notes, active-learning tasks and exam practice.

Teach King Lear from the first line to the last – and then bring it together for the exam – with this complete pack of 44 teaching PowerPoints from A Level AHEAD.
Written by Andy Hurley, former Principal Examiner, HMI Inspector and Headteacher with more than 30 years in education, the pack is built from classroom-tested lessons and designed to put students at the centre of every session.
What’s included
• 34 scene-by-scene teaching PowerPoints covering every scene of the play.
• 10 whole-play revision units: Lear; Gloucester and Edgar; Edmund; Goneril and Regan; Cordelia, Kent and the Fool; Sight and blindness; Nature and the natural order; Justice, the gods and the storm; Madness, wisdom and identity; and a capstone unit, Tragedy: bleak or comfort?
• A teacher’s guide with a suggested year plan, a streamlined route for shorter allocations, and a map of the running trackers.
Why teachers will find it useful
• Structured around a four-phase learning continuum – Connect, Activate, Demonstrate, Consolidate – with no fixed lesson breaks, so you can pace each deck over one, two or three sessions.
• Full teacher notes on every slide: resources, timings, answer guidance and model answers.
• Genuinely active learning: sixty-second summaries, hot-seating, thought-tracking, Defend the Indefensible, staging tasks, debate lines, close-reading annotation and improve-the-paragraph tasks.
• Integrated prep: each deck sets reading and group questions for the next, and the next deck opens with students presenting.
• Running trackers across the play – including Tracking Edmund, “Lear’s mind”, the Wheel of Fortune and a bleak-or-comfort chart – that feed directly into the revision units.
• Exam preparation built in: timed extract questions, whole-play essay planning with four planning methods, context and critical interpretations (Johnson, Lamb, Hazlitt, Coleridge, Bradley, with modern readings explained), and Quote Quilt revision grids.
• Board-neutral: assessment objectives are referenced with reminders to check your own specification, so the pack works for any A Level course that sets King Lear.
• Fully editable PowerPoint files in a clean, consistent design.

Edition
Line references follow the Cambridge School Shakespeare edition of King Lear.