Teaching Maurice | 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: Part 1, Chapters 1-5 "Maurice" is a novel about a man trying to come to terms with his own sexuality in a society where homosexuality is forbidden. In studying the era and the attitudes towards sex, the students will have a better understanding of the struggle the main character undergoes in the novel. The objective of this lesson is to study society's views on homosexuality in...
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