For this section, students should read the "Dedication", the "Prelude on the Stage", and Chapters One through Four of the First Part of Goethe's Faust.
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Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.
Content Summary for Teachers
Dedication
In the Dedication, we hear the voice of an unnamed Poet (presumably, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe himself) observing the approach of "close, elusive shapes" that his vision "but dimly glimpsed" during...
