Teaching Darkness Visible | 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: Styron uses first person narrative perspective and flashbacks to tell his story. The objective of this lesson is to examine these style techniques and determine how well they worked for Styron.

1) 1) Whole Group Discussion: Styron uses first person narrative, meaning it was told from his viewpoint, and narrative means he told it as a story. He does not use a chronological sequence, however, employing...
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