Teaching Middlemarch | 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: Society in Middlemarch, as in many other places during the Victorian Era, was largely based on class and wealth. The objective of these exercises is to help students better understand the class structure of Middlemarch.

1) 1) In-class discussion: What is the structure of Victorian society? What place does each main character appear to occupy in society? Who is of a higher rank, and who...
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