Teaching The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature | 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: Chapter I: The Medieval Situation Due to its informational nature, this book is non-fiction--which is different than the most famous of the books penned by this author. The objective of this lesson will be to discuss this important literary genre, and to analyze why this book fits so well into this particular genre.

1) 1) Introduction of Genre: Introduce to the class the concept of the...
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