Teaching The Caretaker | 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: Act 1 Act I's setting is a very cluttered room in a home that is in the process of being renovated. The setting is crucial to the play because the items in the room are symbolic of events to come, and the close proximity of all the characters makes them interact in certain ways. This lesson will discuss why the setting is so important to the play.