Teaching Dubliners | 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: "The Sisters." "The Sisters" is the first short story in this collection of short stories, all of which provide powerful images and snapshots into the world of Dublin although they are quite short. The goal of this objective is to discuss the common properties of short stories, so that the students may understand the genre more fully.

1) 1. Classroom discussion. The goal of...
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