Daily Lessons for Teaching Girls at War, and Other Stories

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: The aim of this lesson is to introduce the character of Nwibe.

1) 1. With the students, brainstorm all the places they think Nwibe goes in his spare time, what he thinks about, what he cares about, what we know of his character so far. Divide the students into pairs and ask them to choose one of the settings and develop a conversation...
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