Daily Lessons for Teaching The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir

Thi Bui
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 141 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Daily Lessons for Teaching The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir

Thi Bui
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 141 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Lesson 1 (from Preface and Chapters 1-2)

Objective

Students will study Bui’s use of particular tone types within the narrative of The Best We Could Do in order to build their understanding of how tone can influence how a nonfiction work is received by the reader.

The opening scene in Thi Bui’s memoir entitled The Best We Could Do depicts Thi’s difficult labor as she gives birth to her first child. Within the scene, Thi repeatedly asks questions, makes her wishes known, and voices her fright, all to no avail. As a result, this scene is relayed with a disapproving tone, both within the alphabetical text featured in the scene and in the imagery used to depict the childbirth. By studying the author's use of different tones within the text, students will have the opportunity to see that even works of nonfiction bring with them the biases and perspectives of authors...

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