Daily Lessons for Teaching Ring around the Moon

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: Act 1, Scene 1 The first two characters onstage, Joshua and Hugo, discuss the strange sleeping habits of Hugo's twin, Frederic. Today's lesson examines the significance of Frederic's sleeping habits.

1) 1) Class Discussion: What is unusual about Frederic's sleeping habits? Beneath whose window does he sleep? What is a rhododendron? What do Frederic's sleeping habits reveal about his character?

2) Small Group Discussion: How might...
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