Teaching Kitchen | 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 One, Kitchen Mikage spends a lot of time in the kitchen, and finds comfort in them. In the first line of the novel, for example, Mikage states that her favorite place in the world is in the kitchen. This lesson explores the ways in which kitchens play a large role in Part One.

1) 1. Class Discussion: Determine the role of each kitchen that Mikage encounters....
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