Daily Lessons for Teaching The Night of the Iguana

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: Williams describes Shannon as a Black Irishman. He is a defrocked priest currently working as a tour guide for Blake's Tours. The aim of this lesson is to examine Shannon's character.

1) 1. Divide the students into pairs or groups of three. Ask them to use magazine pictures to make a picture story of Shannon's life.

2. Ask the students to write 500 words on what they think...
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