Teaching Mountain Language | 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: Setting The stage, context, and external settings are not concrete in Act 1 of Mountain Language. Most is left up to representation and the audience's interpretation. In this lesson, discuss what the "setting" in Act 1 represents and whether it matters that nothing specific is identified.

1) 1) Data Collection: Is there anything specific to time or place given away in Act 1? What can we infer? How?...
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