Daily Lessons for Teaching Death of a Salesman

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: Students will be informed about Arthur Miller's life and achievements. They will begin to appreciate Miller's stature in American and world drama.

1) 1) Teacher's mini-lecture on Arthur Miller and his contribution to the American/world stage. Provide a short biography of this great playwright of the twentieth century.

2) Show students film clips (not entire films) of Miller plays/screenplays like The Crucible and The Misfits...
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