Teaching Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire | 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: In Chapter 1, Colonel Aleksandr Tretetsky and his men are excavating the mass graves of Polish military officers murdered because of a direct order issued by Stalin in the 1940s. The Russian people are finally learning the truth about Stalin and about their country. The objective of this lesson is to compare how Tretetsky and Tokaryev deal with the truth.

1) 1) Class discussion: Who is...
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