Day 3

Shame Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Read Part III: "Shame, Good News and the Virgin."

Content Summary for Teachers

Part III Chapters 7-8

The narrator opens Chapter Seven with a story from England of a Pakistani father who murdered his daughter for having slept with a white man (an accusation that is discovered to be only a rumor). The narrator explains how the man's family and friends struggled to outright condemn the man's actions. He also explained how the man himself was as devastated by the loss as anyone else. The narrator explains that this is a shocking story to Western audiences because they do not come from a culture that knows shame. The narrator relates to the man.

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