Daily Lessons for Teaching Migraine

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 beginning, Sacks wants to try to describe what a 'typical' migraine is and what people who don't experience them would need to know. Today's objective is to discuss the idea of what is typical and whether this is reasonable to link to a condition.

1) 1. Have each student define the idea of something being typical.

2. In smaller groups, have students...
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