Teaching I, Claudius | 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: The first chapter of this book makes it very clear that the story is told from the personal point of view of Claudius, then Emperor of Rome. This lesson will focus on the first person narrator and how that affects the story.

1) 1) Discuss the different types of narrator (first person, third person limited, third person omniscient) with students. Ask them to provide...
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