Teaching The Cement Garden | 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: Chapter 1 The Cement Garden is a tale of children dysfunctionally acting as adults when both parents die. They struggle with their own behavior issues and incest as well as how to conceal their mother's death from the authorities. The writer of this book is Ian McEwan. McEwan has several novels to his credit and has an interesting story of his own life. Today, students will open...
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