Daily Lessons for Teaching Eleven Minutes

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: Chapters 1, 2 and 3 Maria's mentality of a woman's role and the time period in which the novel occurs contrasts with the progression women have made during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This lesson will discuss this contrasting mentality of Maria's with the overall mentality of the twenty-first century.

1) 1. Group Discussion:
Divide the class in groups and discuss how Maria's mentality of a woman's...
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