Teaching The Bell Jar | 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: The Bell Jar is written entirely from Esther's first person point of view. The objective of this lesson is to identify and examine how this point of view affects the narrative from the very start of the novel.

1) 1) Review the definition of first person point of view
2) Class discussion: (You may want to pose these questions to students and ask them...
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