Teaching Goblin Market | 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: Of all Christina Rossetti's poems, none is better known than Goblin Market. The poem focuses around the effects of acquiescing to temptation and the restorative power of sacrifice and love. Additionally, there is a strong tie to the theme of resurrection, a theme which is shared with Dream Land. The objective of this lesson is to primarily examine the Christological allegory in Goblin...
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