Teaching Idiot's Delight | 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 Idiot's Delight is set in the remote Hotel Monte Gabriele. This lesson is about why Sherwood chooses a hotel as the backdrop for the story and how it complements the main theme.

1) 1) Class Discussion: Sherwood selected a hotel as the setting for his story involving multiple characters from different origins. What is it about the Hotel Monte Gabriele that makes it ideal for...
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