Daily Lessons for Teaching Six Plays

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 Children's Hour, Act 1 Plays are a type of literary work that are often produced on stage. Both the title of the book and its structure immediately establish that "The Children's Hour" is a play or dramatic literature. The process of analyzing plays can be different than that of analyzing other works of literature. The objective of this lesson is to learn about the genre of...
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