Teaching The Women of Brewster Place | 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: Opening Poem The author uses many literary techniques in the book including the similes found in the Langston Hughes poem. The objective of this lesson is to understand similes in literature

1) Lead the class in a discussion of figurative language. Begin with a definition of a simile and ask the class for any examples they can pinpoint. How do the similes of the...
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