Daily Lessons for Teaching The Nutmeg of Consolation

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: Setting. The action occurs in and about the South China Sea during the early 1800's. The object of this lesson is to look at setting.

1) 1. Homework. Students will rewrite the basic plot of The Nutmeg of Consolation and set it in another century, explaining how the different setting changes the work. For example, what would be different if it was set in World War...
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