Daily Lessons for Teaching The Sixteen Satires

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: Satire I CONDEMNATION - In Satire I, Juvenal seems to condemn almost all of mankind, questioning why they live their lives the way that they do; as well as why they attempt to chronicle their lives on paper, when there is nothing new or interesting to say. The objective of this lesson is for students to explore the list of actions that Juvenal condemns; and to discuss...
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