Teaching The Member of the Wedding | 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: The setting of the story is a small town in Alabama during World War II. To the modern reader, this may seem like a portrait of ideal community life, but to Frankie it is a time and place that she would like to escape. The objective of this lesson is to discuss and understand the setting of the story.

1) Tasks, Ideas, Challenges, and Homework
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