Teaching Gaudy Night | 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: Chapters 1-2. Gaudy Night, a detective novel written by Dorothy Sayers, is about a female detective fiction writer. This lesson discusses the author of Gaudy Night and her connection with her main character Harriet Vane.

1) 1) Class discussion: Dorothy Sayers was a writer of detective fiction and was also one of the first women to graduate from Oxford University. Who is the main character of...
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