Teaching The Quiet American | 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: Part 1 Chapter 1 The student will hear background on the French war in Indochina before the Americans entered the Vietnam conflict. The student will take notes on the author Graham Greene.

1) 1. The teacher will give students background information on the war in French Indochina that became known as the Vietnam War when the Americans took over the war against the Communist forces of Ho...
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