Teaching The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail | 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: The first act of Lawrence and Lees' play develops the characters and themes that made it one of the most controversial and successful plays of the late 1960s. This lesson will discuss these characters.

1) Class Discussion: Who is the protagonist in this play? What do we know about him?

Small Group Activity: Discuss the other characters in the play and details about each...
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