Daily Lessons for Teaching A Woman Alone: Autobiographical Writings

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: "A Woman Alone" is divided into chapters, grouped together by time periods of Bessie Head's life. Each chapter is comprised of short writings of different genre types. The objective of this lesson will be to discuss the organizational style of the book.

1) 1) Class Discussion: Given this type of organization, were you able to follow Bessie's story? Did you find the...
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