Teaching Arcadia | Daily Lessons

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: Students will consider the significance of the setting of the play in Act 1, Scene 1, Part 1.

1) 1) As a whole group, students will list describing words about the setting on the blackboard. Reviewing the list, students will discuss the significance of each descriptor, citing examples from the book as evidence for their ideas.

2) Individually, students will write...
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