Daily Lessons for Teaching Oscar and Lucinda

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: Chapters 1 - 10 The novel begins with the narrator describing his mother's pride in her ancestor, her grandfather Reverend Oscar Hopkins. When bishops were invited to tea, his mother would proudly show them the photo of Reverend Hopkins and tell the story of how he brought St. John's to Bellingen. This lesson will explore the narrator's ancestry.

1) 1) Class Discussion: The narrator is...
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