Teaching The Queen of the Damned | 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: In the prologue, Lestat introduces himself to the reader, reminding those who have read the first two books, that he is a vampire who seeks fame and fortune in the mortal world. In that, he has been successful, having written a successful autobiography, sold records detailing information about the vampire world, and staging a sold-out rock concert. The prologue is entirely in the first person, though...
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