Daily Lessons for Teaching The Power and the Glory

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: Part 1, Chapter 1 The student will take notes from the teacher about Graham Greene, the novelist, and THE POWER AND THE GLORY, the novel. The student will give opinions about the benevolence of religious organizations versus the benevolence of the state.

1) 1. The teacher will lecture on Graham Greene while eliciting any information the students may have. Greene is most commonly thought of in...
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