Daily Lessons for Teaching The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956

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: Part 1, Chapter 1 ARRESTS - In this chapter, the reader learns about the various arrests that took place while the Gulag prison camps were in use. The objective of this lesson is for students to explore the crimes that warranted arrest and imprisonment in Gulag, and to discuss the reactions from both the prisoners and their families.

1) 1.) As a class, create a list of...
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