Daily Lessons for Teaching The Feminine Mystique

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: Post World War II, the idea of femininity was involved entirely within the house and home. The objective of this lesson is to compare the image of women's positions in society then and now.

1) 1) Initiate a class discussion on the roles of women in the past and present. What is the main difference between the past and present? Has the situation for women...
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