Teaching The Virgin Suicides | 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: Chapter 1 The titles of books can mean many things, and are often understood only after reading the text. This novel in particular has a provocative title sure to capture the interest of teens (especially since there is a fairly recent movie version of it that they may have seen). This story is told almost entirely in flashback, although the very first paragraph "gives away," to an extent,...
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