Teaching The Matchmaker | 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: A play is written in a specific format, much different than the format of a novel. To help the reader better understand The Matchmaker, this lesson will define the structure of a play and the way action, character, setting, and dialogue are used to tell a story.

1) 1. Class discussion: Is The Matchmaker a novel or a play? How do you know? In a...
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