Daily Lessons for Teaching Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music

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: Prologue In the Prologue, Greil Marcus introduces the concept of artist as being more than someone who creates and redefines it to mean someone who shapes a culture. To do this, Marcus uses an anecdote or a short and often amusing narrative about a biographical incident that reveals some kind of truth. In the anecdote about The Dick Cavett Show, Marcus tells that only Little Richard...
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