Daily Lessons for Teaching Sharpe's Enemy: Richard Sharpe and the Defense of Portugal, Christmas 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. Sharpe's Enemy is set in the Spanish village of Andrados during December of 1812. The objective of this lesson is to look at setting.

1) 1. Homework: Students will rewrite the basic plot of Sharpe's Enemy and set it in another century, explaining how the different setting changes the work. For example, what would be different if it was set in World War I...
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