Teaching Six Degrees of Separation | 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: Six Degrees of Separation begins en medias res, midway through the events of the plot. As such, the characters must go back and explain how they have reached the point at which the audience meets them. The objective of this lesson is to understand the purpose of beginning a story en medias res.

1) 1. Divide the class into several groups. Have each group form a hypothesis...
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