Teaching House of Sand and Fog | 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: Part I: Section 1 | Part I: Section 2 In the classical definition of tragedy, the hero's difficulties must come as a direct result of their own character flaws. In these introductory sections, Dubus acquaints us with Behrani and Kathy, and we see some of the characteristics that might foreshadow trouble to come. Today's objective is to identify tragic flaws in each protagonist, and to predict...
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