Day 3

Reading Lolita in Tehran Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

James Sections 1-17

Common Core Objectives

  1. 1

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.1.C

  2. 2

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.5

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.

Content Summary for Teachers

James Sections 1-17

In this first half of the “James” section, Azar recounts some of her memories of Iran’s war with Iraq in the 1980s. She notes that the war started for several reasons, including new Islamic revolutionaries, Iranian animosity toward Saddam Hussein, and a long time...

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