Teaching Roughing It | 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: Prefatory Roughing It begins with a Prefatory by Mark Twain that sets up the book's intentions. This lesson is about the purpose of a prefatory in literature.

1) 1) Class Discussion: What is a prefatory? What is the purpose behind adding a prefatory to a book? Why is it necessary for some books, but not in others? Which books specifically benefit the most from having a prefatory?...
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