Teaching The Dark Child | 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: Genre is a type of literary work. "The Dark Child" by Camara Laye is an autobiographical novel since the author reflects on his own life. This lesson will discuss the genre of autobiography.

1) 1) Class discussion: What is genre? What genre is "The Dark Child"? How do you know? What are the elements of this kind of genre? What...
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