Teaching Northanger Abbey | 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 protagonist of "Northanger Abbey" is introduced as Catherine Morland. The author uses exposition to compare and contrast Catherine as a child and Catherine as a seventeen-year-old young woman. This lesson discusses the novel's protagonist, Catherine Morland.

1) 1) Class discussion: Discuss the description of Catherine given by the author. How is she described physically in her youth and as a young woman? What are her...
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