Daily Lessons for Teaching Winesburg, Ohio

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: "The Book of the Grotesque" introduces a unique definition of "grotesque". The objective of this lesson is to deconstruct the definition of "grotesque" as described by the writer.

1) 1) Group work: In groups, have students find passages from "The Book of the Grotesque" that define what "grotesque" means to the writer.

2) Class discussion: What does the writer call grotesque? How are...
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