Daily Lessons for Teaching Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

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: Sitting Quietly and Milk Years Lily, as the widowed, eighty-year-old narrator, looks back on her past. She says she can now say things freely without offending anyone. Her central confession is that she longed for love her entire life, and that she did what was expected of her in order to win this love. This lesson will explore Lily's desire for love.

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