Teaching Dream on Monkey Mountain | 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: Walcott begins his play by using the cultural tradition of storytelling to integrate his story. He includes singing, dancing, and visual narrative in a way that is not necessarily realistic, but communicates ideas in a different way than a more conservative production might. The objective of Lesson #1 is to explore the impact of the storytelling approach on the Prologue.

1) 1) Small group discussion: Break...
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