Daily Lessons for Teaching The Silence of the Lambs

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 - 5 Clarice Starling is an up and coming FBI trainee. She is called by the Section Chief of the Behavioral Sciences department to help in a serial killer investigation. Clarice will face many challenges in this investigation, the largest being the challenges associated with being a female in a male dominated career path. The objective of this lesson is to explore...
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