Daily Lessons for Teaching The Decameron

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 The student will be able to identify the structure of THE DECAMERON and its significance to the development of the modern novel.

1) Classroom activity:
1. Students will take notes from teacher lecture on THE DECAMERON. Included should be (1) the style of the work, (2) sources for the various tales in the
work; (3) impact of...
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