Under My Skin Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 133 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Under My Skin Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 133 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Chapter One

• In Chapter 1, Lessing traces her family tree and learns that her parents did not love their parents.

• Lessing observes that women seem to be invisible in history.

• Doris' mother, Maude, is trained to be a nurse, and is assigned to a hospital where she falls in love with a young doctor.

• Dispatched to a ship, the doctor dies when the ship is torpedoed.
• When World War I begins, Lessing's father, Alfred is injured, and ends up in the same hospital where Maude works as a nurse.

• Alfred's injury requires the amputation of his leg, and he becomes depressed.

• Alfred and Maude fall in love and marry.

• Alfred is assigned to a position with the Bank in Kermanshah, Persia.

• Doris is born there in Persia in October of 1919.

Chapter Two

• In Chapter 2, Lessing discusses the role of truth in autobiography.

• Lessing finds it easier to write the...

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