Teaching The Cherry Orchard | 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: Setting: The Cherry Orchard is Anton Chekhov's last play, set in Russia during the turn of the century. The setting of The Cherry Orchard is heavily inspired by the social upheaval following the Emancipation of slaves in Russia and how the new class system comes into play. The futility of the aristocracy's attempt to maintain superiority without funds to do so, and the attempts by the...
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