Teaching A Bend in the River | 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: Book 1, Chapter 1 The students will take notes from a teacher lecture about V. S. Naipaul and the novel, A BEND IN THE RIVER. The students will participate in a discussion about Africa in the 1960's.

1) 1. Teacher lecture to include: Biography of V. S. Naipaul and winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. Discuss the importance of the Nobel Prize, where it originated,...
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