Teaching Gertrude and Claudius | 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: About Names The names used in the story were recovered from several different sources, the result being multiple versions of names for the same characters. In this lesson students will identify the varied forms of names for each of the main characters.

1) 1. Writing: Instruct students to write short answers to the following questions. What do the names of Gerutha, Horwendil, Feng, and Amblet change to...
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