Daily Lessons for Teaching Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan

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: Part 1: Chapters 1-2 Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan is a New York Times bestselling book by Greg Mortenson. Greg Mortenson is the co-founder of the Central Asia Institute, a non-government organization that builds schools and promotes the education of girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan. In this lesson, students are introduced to the book and will research its author,...
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