Daily Lessons for Teaching A Year in Provence

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: The first conflict in the novel is the Mayles' encounter with the Mistral winds from Russia. These winds have a powerful effect on the people and climate of Provence. The objective of this lesson is to research the Mistral winds and their effects online or in the library and research the effect of other major winds in the world, for example the Mediterranean Sirocco...
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