Daily Lessons for Teaching The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

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: Volume 1 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a narrative filled with diversions, farce and the opinions of its amiable narrator, Tristram. The objective of his lesson is to discuss Laurence Sterne's writing style in Tristram Shandy.

1) 1. As a class, discuss Sterne's unique writing style. What literary constraints does most fiction impose upon a writer? How does his...
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