Daily Lessons for Teaching The Natural

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: Chapter 1 A motif is an object in a literary work that helps develop the idea or the theme. In The Natural, trains are significant throughout, beginning with the first chapter. The objective of this lesson is to examine the motifs in the first chapter.

1) 1) For class discussion: At the very beginning of the novel, the train is going through a...
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