Teaching The Homecoming | 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: Act 1, Scene 1 Reading a play requires a different approach than reading a novel. The objective for this lesson is for students to learn the ways in which a dramatic script differs from a narrative.

1) 1.) Give students a copy of the following narrative paragraph (or one of your own choosing): "Moira came home thirteen minutes past her curfew. Her father was waiting for her;...
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