Teaching White Oleander | 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 | Chapter 2 It is summer in Los Angeles when the novel begins, and the oleanders have begun blooming. Ingrid mentions that this time of year is the time when somebody could kill their love and blame it on the winds. This lesson will explore the foreshadowing behind this statement and the oleanders blooming.

1) 1. Class discussion: Why do you think that Ingrid says...
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