Teaching Disgrace | 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: Chapter 1: In Chapter 1 we meet David Lurie, a fifty-two year-old divorced professor of technical university in Cape Town South Africa who mechanically attends to his teaching. The objective of this lesson is to be able to articulate a general impression of David Lurie, the protagonist, based upon basic facts about his life and his chosen vocation and his present...
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