Daily Lessons for Teaching Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

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: Sum: In this afterlife, a person's life is relived but in a different order. Everything in life is grouped together: showers, cleaning, watching TV. As a result, people become bored and dissatisfied. The objective of this lesson is to understand why the people in this afterlife begin to long for their life on earth.

1) Class Discussion: What different things in life could be...
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