Teaching Winterset | 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, Scene 1 The poetic language of the play combines poetic verse and prose, enabling the characters to remain realistic while commenting poetically on philosophical themes. The objective of this lesson is to discuss the combination of verse and prose in the play.

1) 1. As a class, discuss the use of poetic verse and prose in a drama. What is often the...
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