Daily Lessons for Teaching Feminist Theory from Margin to Center

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: Preface to the First Edition (1984). In this section the author presents two key terms that form the cornerstone of her ideas about feminism: center and margin. The object of this lesson will be to begin to establish the author's critique of early feminism via an understanding of these two central terms.

1) Activities:

1) Pass out pieces of scrap paper and ask students to make...
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