Teaching Kafka on the Shore | 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: The Boy Named Crow, Chapters 1-5 CROW - In this chapter, the reader meets Kafka's imaginary friend, Crow. The objective of this lesson is for students to explore the character of Crow and to discuss why Kafka might have needed to invent an imaginary friend.

1) 1.) As a class, create a list of adjectives used to describe Crow. If it hadn't been explicitly stated, would you...
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