Daily Lessons for Teaching The Sun Also Rises

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: This chapter introduces Robert Cohn to the reader. He is depicted as a shy, self-conscious student at Princeton who is tormented by others because he is Jewish. He takes up boxing to relieve his feelings of inferiority and a physical way to vent his bitterness. The objective of this lesson is to look at the anti-Semitism presented in this first chapter and how it shapes...
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