Daily Lessons for Teaching Kokoro

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 idea of translating someone else's work seems to be something that might be trickier than it appears. Today's objective is to discuss the inherent problems of translating someone else's work.

1) 1. Have each student make a list of the steps they think need to be taken in order to translate something.

2. In smaller groups, have students discuss whether they would ever...
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