Daily Lessons for Teaching Rappaccini's Daughter

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: The aim of this lesson is to introduce the story, "Rappaccini's Daughter".

1) 1. Class discussion. What do the students already know about this story? What do the students know about Hawthorne as a writer? What do the students expect from the story? Why do they expect these things to happen?

2. With the students, look at the questions Hawthorne asks in...
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