Daily Lessons for Teaching Moby-Dick

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: Chapters 1-2 | Chapters 3-4 The student will take notes from the teacher lecture on Melville and his place in American literature.

1) Classroom activity:
1. Begin the class with a lecture on Melville as a contemporary of Nathaniel Hawthorne to discuss the evolution of the American novel.
2. Define for the students the strengths and weaknesses of MOBY DICK and why it...
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