EMC CPD Face-to-Face: Refresh Your Approach to King Lear for A Level Literature
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Availability -
Places available
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Price - £265 per place
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Location - EMC, SE1 8QW
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Duration - 10-3.30pm
A cross-specification course to reinvigorate both your own reading of King Lear and your teaching strategies. As well as sessions providing resources and practical approaches for teaching the text in its literary and generic context, the day will include a short lecture by Professor Emma Smith, University of Oxford. The course will cover:
- King Lear as tragedy – practical strategies to introduce and explore ideas about tragedy to illuminate the text
- A range of approaches for reading and analysing the text, with a focus on balancing close analysis with an overview of the play
- The play in production
- How to ensure context illuminates rather than dominates responses – a case study approach to themes and character.
(Includes a print & digital copy of EMC's Studying King Lear.)
How to get to the English and Media Centre, 44 Webber Street, London, SE1 8QW
Once you are on Webber Street, look out for the big gates and a sign saying CLPE. You’ll see EMC’s sign to the right of the entrance.
National Rail:
- Waterloo and Waterloo East are within 10 minutes walk
- London Blackfriars is a 10-15 minutes walk
Underground:
- Southwark on the Jubilee Line
- Waterloo on the Jubilee, Bakerloo, Waterloo & City and Northern Lines
Buses:
- The following bus routes go close to Webber Street: 1, 139, 168, 171, 172, 344
I have thoroughly enjoyed the course and has been the best CPD that I have ever done. The knowledge shared as well as some ways to go about context, genre and the teaching have been invaluable and will allow me to deliver better content and lessons to my students. Cara Vallario, Collingwood College, Refresh Your Approach to Othello for A Level Literature, Summer 2025
I thought it was inspirational - both accessible and encouraging higher level thinking, and with such a superb range of resources. It was lovely to get the opportunity to immerse myself in the text and to consider teaching approaches. The lecture was fabulous too. Emily Bancroft, Loughborough High School, Refresh Your Approach to Othello for A Level Literature, Summer 2025
Emma Barker
Emma Barker worked as an English teacher for many years in London schools, leading each of the key stages before becoming Head of English. At the EMC since 2016, she ran the English with media/drama PGCE course until 2023 and continues to teach the English side of EMC's Media with English PGCE with Goldsmiths, as well as working on student conferences and A Level courses at the Centre
Lucy Webster
Lucy Webster has been an advisory teacher at EMC since 1999. She is co-editor of emagazine, runs courses and writes and edits publications, specialising in A Level English Literature. Recent publications include Doing Close Reading, study guides to A Streetcar Named Desire, Hamlet, King Lear, Atonement and Mrs Dalloway and Yes We Can: EMC Approaches to Rhetoric – A Practical Guide for 11-14. She edited The Literature Reader and co-edited What Matters in English Teaching.
Professor Emma Smith
Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College, University of Oxford and the author of many books about Shakespeare, including This is Shakespeare (2019).
- Bookings for this course will close at 8am (London, UK) on Tuesday 14th October or when capacity is reached, whichever is the sooner.
- This course must be booked online.
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- We require at least five working days’ notice of cancellation, otherwise your school will be invoiced for the full amount. However, if you are not able to attend and a colleague would like to take your place, this can be arranged at any time. (Please email [email protected] with the name and email address of the teacher.)
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- Our face-to-face courses are very interactive and cannot be live-streamed.