Teaching 2002 Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land | 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: Shipler starts out his manuscript by trying to take the reader into the past, before there were the sorts of conflicts there are today. Today's objective is to discuss the importance of the past and whether it can be used to change the future.

1) 1. Have each student briefly describe their pasts. Share happy and sad moments and memories.

2. In smaller groups,...
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