Teaching The Secret History | 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: Book I, Chapters 1-2 In the first two chapters of the novel, Greek has a tremendous influence on every main character. The students study Greek, their adviser is also their Greek studies teacher, and they are all working for the same major in Greek studies. The objective of the lesson is to examine the theme of Greek in the first two chapters and its symbolism...
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