Teaching Buried Child | 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: Dodge is described as a drunken, argumentative man who stays on the sofa all the time with his blanket he uses like a security blanket. There is an inner child in everyone wanting to be cuddled and taken care of. The objective of this lesson is to analyze the inner child in adults.

1) 1) For class discussion: Speculate on several scenarios which might have...
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