Teaching The Golden Notebook | 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: Free Women: 1 The novel begins and we meet Anna and Molly, two "free women" who are single. One of the main themes emerges right away, which is the idea of whether women are better off married or single. The objective of this lesson is to study one of the novel's themes about whether women are better off married or single.

1) 1) Class discussion: One of...
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