Teaching Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | 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: Journal writing. Stream of consciousness. Therapist, psychoanalyst, religious counselors and many others advocate keeping a journal of one's life. Included in a journal might be stream of consciousness writings and thoughts that result from the stream. In psychology, psychoanalysis, a therapeutic technique invented by Freud, advocates the use of stream of consciousness whereby the patient speaks aloud what is going through his/her mind to the doctor....
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