Teaching A Thousand Clowns | 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: Act 1, Part 1 In Act 1, Part 1, the reader meets Murray and Nick. Murray is a man who uses humor as a defense to many of his problems and has passed this on to Nick in some ways. In other ways, Nick acts as if he is the adult in the relationship. In this lesson, we will discuss the relationship between Murray...
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