Teaching The God of Small Things | Daily Lessons

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, Paradise Pickles and Preserves The objective of this lesson is understanding how Arundhati Roy makes readers feel the depth of a tragedy, without telling the reader what actually happened.

1) 1. Discuss as a class how the reader receives glimpses of the past mixed with views of the present, just as if one were reading Rahel's mind. Give examples of thought flows that are interrupted...
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