Teaching Pamela, or, Virtue Rewarded | 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: Section 1: pages 3-30 In the introduction, the novel is described as an epistolary novel of manners. The objective of this lesson is to enable students to identify the characteristics of these classifications and to develop anticipation questions about the story.

1) A. Class Discussion:
1. Begin the class discussion by giving students the opportunity to define the terms "epistolary" and "novel of manners". Guide the...
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