Daily Lessons for Teaching I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

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, "I had thought it was over." "Survivors of Sexual Abuse by Fathers": Jude Brister, "The Window's Netting"; Maggie Hoyal, "These Are the Things I Remember"; and Yarrow Morgan, from "Remember." This book was the product of a writer's workshop run by Ellen Bass. It began as a way to give some of these women a voice and help women survivors of sexual abuse heal. ...
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