Daily Lessons for Teaching Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)

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: Genre. GOODNIGHT DESDEMONA is a play, which is of the genre called "drama." Plays are a form of fiction that differs from novels or short stories. The objective of this lesson is to understand genre.

1) 1. Class discussion. Discuss with the class the various genres in fiction including the ways in which drama differs from other fiction.

2. Homework. Students will research...
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