Teaching Moll Flanders | 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: Preface: The student will be able to recount enough background history of 18th century England to understand the times when the novel takes place.

1) Classroom activity:
1. Students take notes from a teacher lecture on Daniel Defoe, the novel MOLL FLANDERS, and enough history of England, the Colonies, Newgate Prison
and the disparity between the rich and the poor in...
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