Teaching Daisy Miller | 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: Part 1 The student will be able to define the Victorian era of the mid 1800s. The student will be able to make an initial assessment of the character of Winterbourne.

1) Classroom activity:
1. Teacher lecture on the Victorian era ideas of morality and social propriety. Include the European disdain for the nouveau riche Americans from a
country that...
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