Day 5

Interpreter of Maladies Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Read "The Third and Final Continent."

Common Core Objectives

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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

The Third and Final Continent

It is 1964 and the narrator leaves India, his native country, to sail to London. He studies at the London School of Economics, sharing an apartment with many other expatriate Bengalis. Five years later, at age 36, the narrator gets a job offer from a library at MIT. Around the same time, his marriage...

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