Daily Lessons for Teaching American Buffalo

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: Act I Don's Resale Shop is the central setting of the play; it is here that the main characters interact and the action of the play takes place. This lesson will explore setting.

1) 1) Class Discussion: The opening scene begins in Don's Resale Shop, a fancy name for a junk shop. It is the setting for the entire play. Discuss with the class the junk shop...
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