Daily Lessons for Teaching Man's Search for Meaning

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: "Experiences in a Concentration Camp" - Frankl opens his book with a description of the different roles people played in the concentration camp. This lesson will discuss the different groups of people in the camp.

1) 1) Group pr partner discussion: What are the different classes of prisoners? What is the difference between how the Capos and the ordinary prisoners were treated and rewarded?...
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