Daily Lessons for Teaching The Plague

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: Students will learn some background to help them appreciate this novel all the more.

1) 1) The teacher will present a mini-lecture focusing on Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Satre and the Existentialist movement. Students will take notes in point form.

2) The teacher will draw students' attention to the parallel between the events of The Plague and the invasion of France by Nazi Germany.

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