Teaching The English Patient | 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: Characterization is used by authors in literature to fully describe the personality and qualities of a specific character. In Chapter 1, Ondaatje focuses on characterizing Hana and the English patient to immediately give the reader a sense of their relationship. The objective of Lesson 1 is to explore the characterization Ondaatje uses in the novel to present characters to the reader.

1) 1) Classroom discussion: What...
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