Teaching Beat to Quarters | 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: The Prosperous Voyage The objective of this lesson is to examine the character of the hero of the novel, captain Horatio Hornblower. In the first chapter of the first section of the book we get to know intimately the inner workings of Hornblower's mind. This is important basic information which will prove helpful to the class in understanding some of Hornblower's strange and unexpected behavior throughout...
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