Daily Lessons for Teaching Daughters of the House

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: Dreams. The novel begins with a description of a nightmare. The dream sequence takes place in the ancestral house on the Martin estate, and in the dream, Thérèse's mother, Antoinette, is buried in the cellar under a heap of sand. This lesson will look at dreams.

1) 1. Homework. In many cultures dreams are considered valid and important messages dealing with life. Have each...
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