Daily Lessons for Teaching The Real Thing

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 opening of the play has Max building a house of cards, symbolic for the play as a whole and for many of the relationships. Today's objective is to talk about the idea of a house of cards and what this means in its many definitions.

1) 1. Have students define the idea of a house of cards. What is the first thing that...
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