Daily Lessons for Teaching Letters to a Young Poet

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: Before beginning a study of Rilke's letters, it is important for students to know who Rilke is. The objective of this lesson is to become familiar with the life and work of Rainer Maria Rilke.

1) (1) White Board Discussion: Using the biographical information presented on Rilke in the book, present a lecture outlining Rilke's biography, career, writing style, and particularly his life events and wanderings during...
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