Teaching A Handful of Dust | 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: Social and economic classes. Money and class are the first trends introduced in the novel. Mrs. Beaver has managed to hold on to her connection with the upper class and she works hard to keep it. The objective of this lesson is to look at social and economic classes.

1) 1. Class discussion. Societies and nations have always had a division of classes. Some divisions, such...
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