Teaching Fever 1793 | 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: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 In the opening two chapters, we are introduced to the idea of "the fever" through Polly's death. Anderson uses Polly's death as a clue to what is coming in the novel and this technique is referred to as foreshadowing. The objective of this lesson is to examine how the literary element of foreshadowing is used. here and to build interest.