Teaching Nervous Conditions | 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: Chapter One and Two SWIMMING HOLES -- In this chapter, Tambu discusses her village swimming holes, where she and her brother, Nhamo, spend the hot sunny months. The objective of this lessons is for students to explore the dynamics of the swimming holes and how this place characterizes Tambu as a narrator, and her relationship with her village.

1) 1.) Class activity: As a class, create a...
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