Daily Lessons for Teaching Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World

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: Chapters 1-4 Rita Gelman is a married woman with grown children. The title of this chapter is, "The Beginning." The objective of this lesson is to explore the concepts of new beginnings.

1) 1) Partner project: Split the students into pairs. Tell the students that one person is to act as an interviewer, and the other is to pretend they are Rita. Write down interview questions...
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