Daily Lessons for Teaching Glengarry, Glen Ross

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: Act 1, Scene 1 of Glengarry Glen Ross introduces the rules of the contest in which the salesmen have been placed. Fixed games are common in the work of David Mamet as a way to drive action. The objective of this lesson is to examine the idea of the fixed game.

1) 1. For class discussion: in the film of Glengarry Glen Ross, Mamet added a scene...
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