Teaching She's Come Undone | 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: Chapters 1, 2 and 3 In the first chapter of "She's Come Undone", we are introduced to the story of Dolores Price, a girl whose troubled family life is juxtaposed by the solace she finds in television. Review for the class the concept of juxtaposition and examine its use within the chapter.

1) 1. Present the students with a short lesson reviewing the concept of juxtaposition.
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