Daily Lessons for Teaching A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath

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: Chapters 1 through 3 Truong Nhu Tang was brought up in the lap of luxury with his five brothers, father, mother, and Chinese nurse or nanny. A future was mapped out for him from childhood and he attended a school for French diplomats. Tang came to realize all was not well with the world outside his insulated family. Tang's realizations are the subject of...
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