Teaching When We Were Orphans | 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: Kazuo Ishiguro is very specific about the years and dates of the seven parts of WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS. The novel is conveyed to the reader, however, through highly subjective, and often imprecise, memories of the narrator's past. This lesson will explore the influence of time and place in the novel.

1) 1) Divide the class into groups: Have the groups comb through the...
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