Daily Lessons for Teaching Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

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: The aim of this lesson is to introduce the characters of the servant, Kanazawa, Tajomaru, Masago and Naigu.

1) 1. Divide the students into four groups: the servant, Kanazawa, Tajomaru, Masago and Naigu. Ask each group to research the motivation, background and appearance of their character, and then get together with someone from another group. You then give the students a variety of topics relating...
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