Daily Lessons for Teaching Memories of My Melancholy Whores

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: Chapter 1 The narrator tells his life story as he approaches his ninetieth birthday. This lesson looks at the qualities the narrator embodies as a character.

1) 1. Class discussion: What kind of person is the narrator? By only viewing him through the lens of his own story, can the reader make any kind of assessment about his personal qualities? Is he an effective...
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