Teaching Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited | 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: The Foreword and Chapter One's theme is the nature of memory, which Nabokov describes as brief flashes of light between expanding darkness. This lesson will discuss this theme and the metaphors for this concept.

1) Class Discussion: What is the theme found in Chapter One? What are metaphors for this concept?

Small Group Activity: Do you agree with Nabokov's belief that before and after...
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