Daily Lessons for Teaching Crime and Punishment

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: Dostoevsky is probably the most famous Russian novelist of them all, particularly with Western readers. The aim of this lesson is examine Dostoevsky's life and other works.

1) 1) Divide the class into groups of 3 or 4 and give them a few minutes to think of what they know know about Fyodor Dostoevsky. Discuss their thoughts and then give each group about Dostoevsky topic to...
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