Teaching Sister Carrie | 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: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 Carrie and Mr. Drouet both get their first impression of each other in these chapters. The object of this lesson will be to discuss the importance of first impressions, and to discuss how these two impressions could affect the outcome of the book.

1) 1) Read aloud with the class the part where Carrie first walks on the train and Drouet notices...
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