This guide is designed for New York City school teachers who will conduct tennis classes for about 50 students while using limited tennis facilities. The insides of school buildings and school playgrounds will constitute the "courts" for these lessons. This type of introduction to the sport is intended to give students a sense of the game and its skills before they reach high school age. Another goal is to motivate students to participate in a summer tennis program. In addition, learning and playing tennis helps develop students' cognitive and affective skills. Plans for 24 half-hour lessons are presented with suggestions for equipment, aims, performance objectives, procedures, activities, and games. Six appendices provide information on the following: (1) curriculum areas and tennis; (2) tennis terms; (3) rules of tennis; (4) code of conduct; (5) audiovisual materials; and (6) extra-curricular tennis. Bibliographies for teachers and students are included. (VM)