Teaching The Assistant | 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: THE ASSISTANT by Bernard Malamud is set in New York in the early 1950s and takes place in a small Jewish enclave in an otherwise non-Jewish neighborhood.

1) 1 - Class discussion: What is the setting for the novel? When does the story take place? How do you know? What interactions between the characters give you clues to the era of the...
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