Daily Lessons for Teaching Four Quartets

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: All of the Four Quartets are highly abstract, metaphysical poems that consider dense questions very deeply: in "Burnt Norton," the central theme is time, which is presented or approached through various aspects and means. In the first part, a prominent consideration is on that of the past and therefore unreachable possibilities every individual encounters and recalls. Examining this relationship between time past and possibility...
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