Teaching The Jew of Malta | 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: Prologue - The play deals with three sets of people from three different places: the Maltese, the Spanish, and the Turks. In this lesson the students will determine (1) the geographic locations of these three places, (2) the distance between them and the time it takes to cross that distance, (3) Malta's size and type of government at the time of the play, (4) Malta's political...
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