Teaching The Dark Room | 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: Gladigau takes portraits of Papi and his family as Helmut ages into an adult. The objective of this lesson is to see how Helmut's family truly is and how they wish to represent themselves.

1) 1) Discuss as a class what Papi and Mutti wishes of their son. What are they most afraid of? Is it Helmut's ability to care for himself? Is it how others...
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