Daily Lessons for Teaching Persuasion

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: Chapter 1 introduces many of the main characters of the story. The objective of this lesson is to speculate about how the characters will affect each other as the story progresses.

1) Class discussion:

How do Anne, Sir Elliot and Elizabeth seem to relate to each other? Who appears to be in charge? Who appears to be most sensible? How might...
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