Daily Lessons for Teaching The Namesake

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: Chapter 1. The objective of this lesson is to become familiar with the characters Ashima and Ashoke.

1) 1. Class discussion: Who are Ashima and Ashoke, what is their relationship to each other and how did they come to be in the hospital at the beginning of the book?

2. Comparison: This activity can be done as a class or individual activity:...
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