Teaching The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down | 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: Preface. It is rumors of a cultural collision that bring the author, Anne, to Merced, California to talk to Hmong refugees. She meets the Lees and while Anne is comfortable in American society, she learns to become equally at ease on the red folding chair, the honored guest's position, where she sits during her time in the Lee's apartment. Today's lesson focuses on the author's thoughts in...
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