Teaching The Green Pastures | 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: Part 1, Scene 1 The student will be able to discuss THE GREEN PASTURES after taking notes from a teacher lecture on the play and its author.

1) Classroom activity:
1. Teacher lecture includes information about Marc Connelly and the Pulitzer Prize winning drama, THE GREEN PASTURES.
2. Discuss in class the significance of an all black cast in a Broadway play in the 1920s. (read more)