Teaching The Truelove | 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: Setting. Chapter 1 establishes the time and place of the novel--c. 1813 on a British ship during a time of prolonged war with France. The objective of this lesson is to look at setting.

1) 1. Homework. Students will research Europe around the early 1800s, writing a paper on some finding in the research that interest the students and which are relevant to The Truelove. (read more)