Teaching The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 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 1, Chapters 1-5 | Part 1, Chapters 6-10 From the very beginning, Milan Kundera introduces the subject of light and weight in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. These two opposites define the types of relationships the characters find themselves in, and they are the motivational factors that lead them to their ruin or happiness. Parmenides, who saw the world divided into pairs of opposites, said that...
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