Teaching Silence | 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: In this chapter the reader is introduced to the three priests; Francisco Garrpe, Juan de Santa Marta and Sebastian Rodrigues. The aim of this lesson is to examine their characters.

1) 1) Class discussion. Why do the the three priests want to find Ferriera? How important was Ferriera to them? Do the students think that the trip to Japan offers them excitement rather than anything spiritual? How...
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