Teaching Waiting | 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 Prologue and Chapter 1 of Part 1 establish the rules and context of this Chinese society as well as the personalities and tendencies of key characters. In this lesson, discuss these characters and their personalities in relation to these societal rules.

1) 1) Class Discussion: The love lives of the characters in "Waiting" are depicted by their adherence or violation of the rules of marriage...
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