Daily Lessons for Teaching Curse of the Starving Class

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: Reading a play is different than reading a novel or non-fiction publication. Students must be aware of narration, dialogue and stage directions to fully understand what is occurring in the play. The objective of this lesson is to prepare students to read the play "Curse of the Starving Class".

1) 1) Small Group Activity: Divide the class into small groups of three to four students. Each...
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