Teaching Lust | 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: Lust Like in several other Susan Minot stories, the narrator of the story is unnamed. In Lust, the narrator is a teenage girl whose sexual exploits are followed by the reader. This lesson will focus on the unnamed narrator and the significance behind the lack of detail behind the narrator.

1) 1. Class discussion: What do you think the reader is meant to think about the narrator?...
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