Teaching The Mists of Avalon | 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: One of this novel's central themes is duty - how it is taken on and what this means to each character and to the setting as a whole. Today's objective is to discuss the role of duty in modern life as well as in the novel.

1) 1. Have each student create their own definition of duty. What does it mean?

2. In...
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