Teaching White Teeth | 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 objective of this lesson is to give students a short introduction to the author and the novel, looking at an author's history influences his/her writing. Students will also look at the three time periods during which the majority of the novel takes place: World War II, the 1970s, and the early 1990s. These are three very different cultural eras, and to fully understand the...
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