Daily Lessons for Teaching Antony and Cleopatra

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: William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra focuses on two primary conflicts: Antony's internal struggle with himself and his external military conflict with Caesar. In Act 1, Scenes 1 and 2, the play exposes Antony's internal conflict between his sense of duty and his infatuated devotion to Cleopatra. The objective of this lesson is to study this exposition of internal conflict.

1) 1) Class Discussion: What...
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