Daily Lessons for Teaching What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

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: HIV positive Ava Johnson is a single black woman whose successful business and social life have been devastated by her diagnosis. Even with all the new drugs and treatments being HIV positive is a difficult situation. This lesson will look at HIV and AIDS.

1) 1. Class discussion. What does being HIV positive mean? What does having AIDS mean? How can one become infected with the...
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