Daily Lessons for Teaching Norwegian Wood

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 objective of this lesson is to give students a short introduction to the author and the novel. To understand the characters in "Norwegian Wood" and the environment in which Murakami was writing it, it is important for students to have some idea of Japanese culture. This lesson will also give students a basic background in Japanese cultural, political and economic conditions.

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