Teaching The Glass Bead Game | 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: Hesse says biographies are usually about people who have distinguished themselves in some way and the meaning of their personality has changed over the times. The aim of this lesson is to examine biographies.

1) 1) Divide the students to two groups and ask them to examine the following sentence: In this novel Hesse uses the form of a biography as a ironic statement. One group should...
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