Daily Lessons for Teaching A Walker in the City

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: Part 1, From the Subway to the Synagogue, p. 1 - 30. The author is embarking on the first steps of a journey into his past. His first memories of rage, dread and tenderness revolve around the sights and smells of the subway station. The author speaks of his first memory of riding the train from New York City to Brownsville and how his neighborhood felt like...
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