Teaching Our Town | 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: Act 1, Part 1 This play is a simple chronicle of the day-to-day life of a small town and its occupants. The objective of this lesson will be to have the students discuss their own typical days and to analyze what importance these tasks have on our lives.

1) 1) Have the students each write a typical daily schedule of their lives. Have each student read their...
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