Teaching Pnin | 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 In Chapter One of "Pnin", the reader is introduced to Professor Timofey Pnin. The author provides a lot of information about the character's personality in this first chapter. The purpose of this lesson is to analyze the character of Pnin from Chapter One.

1) 1) Round-robin Class Discussion - Have the students put their desks in a big circle, each student in turn shares...
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