Daily Lessons for Teaching Journey to Topaz

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: The Journey to Topaz is novel, which examines the incarceration of the American Japanese after the Pearl Harbor attack in 1942. The aim of this lesson is introduce the book to the students.

1) 1. Class discussion. What do the students already know about Yoshiko Uchida? What can they tell from the book by looking at its cover? What do the students expect from the novel? Why do...
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