Daily Lessons for Teaching Royal Flash, from the Flashman Papers

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: ROYAL FLASH is a novel written by George Macdonald Fraser in 1970. It is part of a series of novels called the Flash papers. All the novels are based loosely on historical events and characters. This novel examines the conflict between the 1848 revolution. The aim of this lesson is to introduce the novel.

1) 1. Class discussion. What do the students already know about George MacDonald Fraser?...
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