Daily Lessons for Teaching Family Matters

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 introduces the Vakeel family and their religious beliefs. This lesson will discuss the ways in which values and beliefs helped shape their lives.

1) 1. Classroom discussion: Nariman's life has been completely shaped by the fact that his family forced him to give up the woman he loved because she was not Parsi as he was. How has the arranged marriage affected Nariman's life?...
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