Daily Lessons for Teaching Sharpe's Eagle: Richard Sharpe and the Talavera Campaign July 1809

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: The aim of this lesson is to examine the Sharpe series.

1) 1. Class discussion. Do the students think it is important to understand the Sharpe books as a whole to understand Sharpe's Eagle at a deeper level? How do the students think Sharpe's character has developed over the series? How influential has the series been on popular culture.

2. Ask the students to summarize...
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