Daily Lessons for Teaching Invitation to a Beheading

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 novel begins with Cincinnatus C.'s imprisonment and the prison itself is an important element of the novel. The objective of this lesson is to analyze the setting of the prison.

1) 1) As a class, read the beginning of Chapter 1, where Cincinnatus is brought to the prison and into his cell. Ask the class what impression they have of the prison. How big is...
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