Teaching The Arabian Nights | 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: Background Chapter, The Story of King Shahryar And His Brother This intro and the following chapter give a general outline for the role the following stories might play in Shahrazad's goals to not only keep herself alive each night, but to eventually change the king's sentiments towards women. Some readers may be surprised at the foreignly blunt, and sometimes violent simplicity of the writing. The objective...
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