Daily Lessons for Teaching The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories

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: River of Names by Dorothy Allison | All the Way in Flagstaff, Arizona by Richard Bausch These two stories have many themes in common. One theme both authors explore in their stories is the thin line between truth and lies. The object of the lesson is to examine truth and lies, and how each is handled in the stories.

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