Daily Lessons for Teaching Nectar in a Sieve

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: When Rukmani's parents arrange her marriage to Nathan, her mother is upset because Nathan is "beneath" Rukmani. Their social classes are not the same. While the social class system is not formally structured in the United States as it is in Rukmani's India, there are definite social classes in the United States today. The object of this Lesson Plan is to have the students critically think about...
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