Teaching Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China | 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 Yang Ru-shan has one duty in life. This duty was impressed so heavily on his mind that he is willing to sell his lovely daughter in an effort to complete it. The object of this lesson will be to discuss the importance of duty in our lives and how it affects us and how it differs from these characters in China.

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