Teaching Memoirs of a Geisha | 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 the first two chapters, the author describes the fishing villages of Yoroido and Senzuru. This first daily lesson on the novel "Memoirs of a Geisha" explores the setting and mood for the story in these chapters.

1) 1) Have your students work in small groups to discuss what they know about Yoroido and Senzuru from their reading. What might these villages look like? What kinds...
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