Teaching Persian Letters | 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: Letters 1 - 9 An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of documents, such as newspaper clippings, diary entries, or a similar form of narration. In the case of Persian Letters, the book is narrated through a series of letters. The objective of this lesson is to examine how Persian Letters fit into the genre of an epistolary novel and to discuss its potential...
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