Daily Lessons for Teaching The Prophet

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 use of the ship as a metaphor for death is something that starts off The Prophet. Today's objective is to discuss why this kind of symbology is helpful to the reader, and how death is portrayed metaphorically in other literary works.

1) 1. Have each student write a short essay describing their feelings about using a metaphor for the idea of death. Do...
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