Teaching Fences | 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: Act 1, Scene 1 In order for students to fully appreciate this play, it is important that they are familiar with some historical background The objective of this lesson is for students to learn about the lives of African Americans in 1957, the year in which "Fences" is set.

1) 1. Class discussion. Read aloud to students from August Wilson's "The Play" which comes...
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