Daily Lessons for Teaching Beautiful Losers

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 History of Them All: Chapter 1-9 At the beginning of the book, our narrator is tormented by the death of his two lovers, Edith and F. This lesson will analyze the deaths of Edith and F. and the importance of these two losses, in regard to the narrator.

1) 1) Group Discussion:
Have the class split into groups and discuss the way Edith and F....
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