Daily Lessons for Teaching School for Scandal

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: In the portrait segment of the play, the playwright's message to the audience is clear: "Do not participate in scandal". Whether transmitting, or receiving, dissuasion of the audience members involving themselves in either phase of scandal is the playwright's attempt. In this lesson, we look at dissuasion, and whether one person's attempt to instill it in thousands of audience members is likely to take effect.

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