Daily Lessons for Teaching Franny and Zooey

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: Franny (pp. 3-21) Novels are not always an Indiana Jones adventure; sometimes they are a psychological adventure. A novel's genre is its style. Though there is action in the first twenty-one pages of the novel, the story is being set up for a journey through thought. The objective of this lesson is to understand the genre of the novel - a psychological drama.

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