Teaching Claude McKay | 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 I and II World War I took place from 1914 to 1918, with a peace treaty being signed in 1919. The United States entered the war in 1917, and many American men fought (and died) in the conflicts in Europe. The war, nicknamed the Great War, had a great influence on American culture at the time since it was on the forefront of everyone's minds. Jake...
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