Teaching Vanity Fair | 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 One | Chapter Two | Chapter Three Through chapters one, two and three we get a great deal of insight of the character of Becky Sharp and to some extent the character of Amelia Sedley. This lesson plan discusses the two female characters-Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley and how these two characters are in contrast to one another.

1) 1) Class Discussion: The name Becky "Sharp"...
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