Teaching The Metamorphosis | 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 beginning of The Metamorphosis finds Gregor Samsa as a beetle. There is no explanation for this sudden transformation; it simply is. The objective of this lesson is to discuss how this kind of beginning affects the narrative.

1) 1) Divide the class into small groups and have each group discuss what they initially thought when Gregor awoke to his new beetle's body. What did it...
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