Teaching The House of Mirth | 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: Book 1: Chapter 1 The setting, the time and place in which a story occurs is established in book 1, chapter 1, of The House of Mirth. In some stories, the setting is extremely important to the story; in others, the setting is relatively unimportant. The objective of this lesson is to learn the setting of The House of Mirth and its impact, if any, on the...
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