Teaching The Adventures of Augie March | 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: Chapters 1-3 LITERATURE - In the opening section, Augie drops literary references although he assures readers that his brother, Simon, is the intellectual one. The objective of this lesson is for students to explore the literary references Augie includes in his narrative, and to discuss what these references tell the reader about his character.

1) 1.) Class Activity: As a class, create a list of literary references...
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