Daily Lessons for Teaching The Glass Menagerie

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: Family dynamics plays an important role in explaining a particular character's actions and reactions. Members of the Wingfield household are no exception. The objective of this lesson is to study character interactions.

1) 1. Open a discussion of the Wingfield family. List all the ways they are a typical family of America of this time period. List all the ways they are atypical. How do these...
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