Teaching H.M.S. Surprise | 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: Chapter 1 - The novel is initially set in England, during the era of Napoleon Bonaparte, but two of the major characters are sailing across the globe. This lesson establishes setting. (materials: a wall map of the world; one or preferably more World Atlases.)

1) 1. Class discussion: Napoleon Bonaparte of France is waging war in the early 19th century. Most of the characters in...
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