Daily Lessons for Teaching The Rover

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, Prologue Understand the role of women in the 1600s, particularly as it pertains to the authorship of The Rover. Written by a woman at a time when women were meant to be seen and not heard, the play challenges beliefs about gender roles and stereotypes.

1) 1. Discuss as a class the role of women in the 1600's. What kind of choices did they have?...
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