Teaching The End of the Affair | 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: In these first chapters, Greene begins to characterize the three main characters. The objective of this lesson is to examine the initial characterization of Bendrix, Henry and Sarah and to consider the bias of the narrator (Bendrix).

1) 1) Review the concept of first person narration and its accompanying bias (if necessary).
2) Divide students into small groups. Ask each group to create a visual representation...
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