Teaching The Imaginary Invalid | 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 | Act 1, Scene 2. In this section of the play, we are introduced to the main characters and learn the central focus of the story. In this lesson, we discuss the use of exposition.

1) 1) Group Activity: As a class, develop a working definition of the term "exposition" and state how exposition is used in Act 1, Scene 1.

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