Daily Lessons for Teaching This Is Our Youth

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: A play's setting is a critical element of theater production. Lesson 1 looks at the setting of "This Is Our Youth."

1) 1) Class Activity: The play takes place on a cold night in late March in 1982 on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The entire play takes place in the apartment of Dennis Ziegler. Recreate his apartment using the board and classroom props as...
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