Teaching Dhalgren | 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: As the novel begins, the reader is introduced to an interesting world of a man that who cannot remember who he is. Throughout the novel, Kidd struggles with memory and the feeling of going insane. He wakes up near Bellona unsure of who he is where he is, only knowing that he needs to go to Bellona. The "woman" who Kidd meets does not know Kidd...
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