Teaching The Warden | 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, Hiram's Hospital--Chapter 2, The Barchester Reformer The situation of the hospital and its money are established in Chapters 1 and 2, and the reader can see the major problem in the story: what to do with the prosperity of the estate, not foreseen by John Hiram. This lesson will explore the central conflict of the story.

1) 1) Class discussion: Why has the estate become...
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