Daily Lessons for Teaching Sharpe's Company: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Badajoz, January to April 1812

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: Setting. The setting is established as the western frontier of Spain during a time of war--Napoleon's France threatens British survival and only Wellington's spectacular successes in the field can contain France's influence. The object of this lesson is to look at setting.

1) 1. Homework. Students will rewrite the basic plot of RICHARD SHARPE AND THE SIEGE OF BADAJOZ and set it in another century,...
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