Daily Lessons for Teaching Murder in the Cathedral

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: The play opens with the Chorus of the Women of Canterbury speaking of an as yet unknown event they will be forced to witness, but not act on. The lives of these women are described as monotonous, dull and full of little meaning. For the rest of the play, these women will be unwillingly thrown into the intrigue of the events of the play, yet cannot...
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