Teaching The 42nd Parallel | 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: pgs. 1-21 In The 42nd Parallel, the author John Dos Passos establishes the genre of the book as fictional realism. Realism emphasizes the importance of the ordinary and unidealized. Fictional realism asserts that because fictions exist, fictional characters exist as well. The objective of this lesson is to examine how the writing style of this section reveals the genre of this book as fictional realism.

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