Henry IV Part 2 Lesson Plan

Read Act I.

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.

Content Summary for Teachers

Induction

The personification of Rumor addresses the audience directly, recounting the events of Henry IV Part 1. Rumor claims that it will spread the falsehood that King Henry and Hal were defeated at Shrewsbury.

Act I, Scene 1

Lord Bardolph arrives at the house of Northumberland, Hotspur's father, to give him some good news. Bardolph says that Hotspur...