Teaching The Big Sleep | 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: Philip Marlowe is a 33-year-old Los Angeles-based private investigator and the first-person narrator. The aim of this lesson is to examine the character of Philip Marlowe

1) 1) Class Discussion. What are Marlowe's goals and motives? What are Marlowe's strengths and weaknesses as a private detective? How far would Marlowe go to achieve results? Is he a moral man? What is Marlowe's private life like? Does Chandler...
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