Daily Lessons for Teaching A Jury of Her Peers

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: Detailed Summary & Analysis A Jury of Her Peers is a 1917 short story by Susan Glaspell. The story, adapted from the play Trifles by the same author, is loosely based on the murder trial of Margaret Hossack, which Glaspell covered while working as a journalist in Des Moines, Iowa. A Jury of Her Peers relates the story of two women who uncover and subsequently recover the...
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