Daily Lessons for Teaching The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

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: In "The Undertaking," Lynch states that "the dead don't care," only the living do. In this lesson, students will discuss this concept and how it relates to the significance of funeral traditions.

1) 1. Class Discussion: What did Lynch mean when he said the dead do not care? Does it matter to them how they died once they are dead? Why do the living care? Why...
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