Teaching A Room of One's Own | 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: Woolf states her purpose for writing in Chapter 1, but there is also a lot that we can infer about what she chooses to write. The objective of this lesson is to understand the thesis/main theme/purpose of A Room of One's Own and how it is communicated.

1) 1) Discussion: Why is Virginia Woolf writing? Who is her audience? What led her to this thesis? What...
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