Daily Lessons for Teaching The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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 Epigraph discusses deeply philosophical issues that are at the core of Western civilization from antiquity. This lesson discusses what is meant by the terms "nature" and "natures," and how these terms are significant to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

1) 1) Individual Assignment: The idea of nature and natures are discussed and debated since the time of the pre-Socratic philosophers. Outline the...
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