Teaching Lord Hornblower | 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: Although readers are likely already familiar with Horatio Hornblower from previous books, C. S. Forester still takes time to give us a better sense of Hornblower as a person. This lesson discusses character building in the first three chapters of this book.

1) 1) Groups: Break the class into groups. Based on the first three chapters, do a character sketch and list Hornblower's qualities as...
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