Teaching Little Dorrit | 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: Book the First: Poverty, Chapters I-VII Knowing the background of an author, especially one as famous as Charles Dickens, can help a reader understand a literary text on a much deeper level. The objective of this lesson is to provide the class with information on Charles Dickens.

1) 1) Focusing Exercise: Have students write for five minutes on the following prompt: "Why is knowing information about...
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