Daily Lessons for Teaching The Grand Inquisitor

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: In this section, Ivan introduces a narrative that he composed to his brother Alyosha by making several literary references to literature including Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris, The Wanderings of Our Lady through Hell, and Dante's Divine Comedy. The objective of the lesson is to identify and compare the references used by Dostoevsky in his work.

1) 1) Class discussion. What stories and authors does...
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