Teaching The Last Picture Show | 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: Chapter 1 One of the things the author really drives home in the first chapter is how it can be lonely living in a small town. It says that the empty town and the empty roads made Sonny feel lonely. The first objective is to explore why Sonny feels so lonely in Thalia.

1) 1. Class Discussion- Have the students name the pros and...
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