Daily Lessons for Teaching Decline and Fall

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: The Bollinger Club is made up of aristocratic elite young men who are descendants of kings and nobility. Their raucous celebration is intended to make a statement to the reader. The objective of this lesson is to better understand the prelude, as well as the tone set by the Bollinger Club at Scone College.

1) 1. Class discussion: As a group, try...
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