Teaching Requiem for a Dream: A Novel | 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: As the novel opens, Harry steals his mother's television set for drug money. Sara allows this, and people outside the family even question why she allows such behavior. The objective of this lesson is for students to examine Harry's relationship with his mother, Sara.

1) 1) Class discussion: After first reading about Sara and Harry's interactions, what did you think? Students may have been irritated that...
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