Daily Lessons for Teaching Regarding the Pain of Others

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 1: The objective of this lesson is to frame Sontag's argument for students. The lesson should assist students in moving to a deeper analysis of Sontag's somewhat unfamiliar argument. In this chapter, Sontag sets the stage for her discussion of war, war photography and protest. This lesson begins where Sontag begins with a discussion of Virginia Woolf's "Three Guineas," an early form of feminist war protest.