Teaching The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression | 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: Phaly Nuon's family is brutalized in the civil war in Cambodia, but she is able to help depressed women who have had the same hardships. This lesson will look at her significance to the book.

1) 1) Class discussion: Why do you think Solomon chooses to use Phaly's story for his overview of depression? What does her story say about depression? What does she do to...
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