Daily Lessons for Teaching Sharpe's Revenge: Richard Sharpe and the Peace of 1814

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 Revenge takes place during the Napoleonic Wars between France and England in 1814. The objective of this lesson is to look at setting.

1) 1. Homework. Students will rewrite the basic plot of Sharpe's Revenge 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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