Teaching The Balcony | 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: Scenes 1, 2, 3, and 4 It is learned that the play is set in a whorehouse, a place that is ultimately all about games of power. This lesson will discuss the set and its purpose in the play.

1) Class Discussion: Describe the setting. What is this place?

Small Group Activity: What is the playwright's purpose in having a brothel be the...
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