Daily Lessons for Teaching Sacred Hunger

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: A narrative point of view typically provides a one-point perspective of all the other characters in the story. Sacred Hunger is told entirely from a third party's point-of-view, and has a particularly significant effect in the Prologue, as it describes private moments of characters' lives in a neutral, observant way. The objective of this lesson is to understand how the presence of a narrator can skew...
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