Teaching The Odd Couple | 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: Many students have not read or understood many plays, therefore, it is important for them to learn about the structure of a play before they can understand The Odd Couple. In this lesson, the students describe and analyze the basic structure of a play.

1) 1) Class Discussion: How does Neil Simon split the play into sections? What is the different between an act and a...
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