Teaching The Lover | 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: The Lover begins with a narrator in about her seventies who begins to tell a story of when she was young and beautiful. Although the narrator remains nameless throughout the novel, she claims to be the author of the text and most believe that the novel is an autobiography. The objective of this lesson is to learn more about the author and her life and to...
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