Teaching Shoeless Joe | Daily Lessons

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: Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa Shoeless Joe, while being a work of fiction, incorporates the real events of the 1919 Black Sox Scandal when eight members of the Chicago White Sox were banned for life from baseball for allegedly throwing the World Series games. This lesson will provide an overview of this historical event which is critical to understanding this novel.

1) 1. Lecture: Prepare...
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