Teaching The Eyre Affair: A Novel | 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 1, A Woman Named Thursday Next, Chapter 2, Gad's Hill, and Chapter 3, Back at my Desk The opening scene of a story is important in setting the tone for the story. Tone is the writer's attitude toward the work and readers, and is usually described in terms of emotions, and how the readers feel as they read. The opening scene of The Eyre Affair addresses...
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