Teaching Sybil | 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: In The Preface of SYBIL by Flora Rheta Schreiber, the reader is informed that they will be taken on a moving and jarring narrative and personal journey. Already the book promises to tell a story of journeys and new beginnings.

1) 1. Describe in a 2-page essay, a time where you felt particularly moved by someone else's story. What is it about the elements of their...
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