Teaching Rabbit, Run | 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: Throughout the beginning of the novel, Harry Angstrom wanders around Mt, Judge, the town where he has always lived, and recalls snippets from his youth. This uniting of present and past is a frequent device of Updike's novel. The objective of this lesson is to examine this merging of past and present.

1) 1. For class discussion: Review this first section of the novel,and find instances...
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