Teaching So Far from the Bamboo Grove | 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: Chapter 1 In this chapter, readers meet the Kawashima family, Japanese natives living in Korea during World War II. Daughter Yoko is asked to dance at a local hospital for injured soldiers. There she meets Corporal Matsumura who will become an important figure in her life. Facing persecution from the Korean Communists, the Kawashima family must leave their home in order to survive. This lesson will help...
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