Daily Lessons for Teaching Heat and Dust

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: Part 1 Section 1 | Part 1 Section 2 In the first two sections of Heat and Dust, the narrator is introduced as a young woman on a quest to discover the story behind her grandfather's first wife. She narrates the story through a journal that begins with her disappointing arrival in dirty and depressing Bombay. This lesson looks at the narrator's motivation in telling this story...
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