Daily Lessons for Teaching The Arcades Project

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, Introductions Very early on in the book, the author introduces us to the concepts of surrealism and shows how these beliefs helped shape the formation of this book. Although the author has shown his seeming ambivalence to surrealism in the text, it is clear that this movement greatly influenced the writing of this book. This lesson will examine the portrayal of surrealism in...
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