Teaching In the American Grain | 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: Introduction In the first half of this chapter, Horace Gregory introduces William Carlos Williams' collection of essays. Gregory discusses the idea of history, warning the reader that it is a pit full of danger--a jungle from which few professional historians come back alive. This lesson will focus on whether or not history is "true" and will discuss the question of whether or not a poet can...
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