Teaching Wide Sargasso Sea | 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: Identifying the narrator is an important component in understanding Jean Rhy's story " Wide Sargasso Sea". The narrative jumps between two or three character's points of view, and they are not explicitly identified. Jean Rhys creates a story and an identity for the unsympathetic character, the insane wife of Mr. Rochester, the character Bertha Mason of Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre". Rhys gives Bertha another name in...
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