Teaching East of Eden | 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, Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 These chapters set the stage for the rest of the book. The objective of this lesson will be to explore some of the possible foreshadowing that happens in these chapters and to discuss some of the possible outcomes.

1) 1) Class activity: Read aloud with the class the part where the poor quality of Samuel Hamilton's land...
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