Teaching The Hours | 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: Students will respond to information about the context of the novel The Hours by Michael Cunningham.

1) 1) Teacher mini-lecture.
Provide students with information about Virginia Woolf and her circle. It is significant for study of Cunningham's novel to understand this, and also for them to know that Woolf was sexually abused by her step-brothers when she was a child. Sexuality is one of the...
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