Below are some teaching resources for The Kite Runner. If you have activities or additional resources, please send them to Jenny Adams at adamsjb@uncw.edu.

General Ideas and Materials

Tips for Including The Kite Runner in courses - pdf

Including The Kite Runner in Freshman Seminar - for UNI instructors

Materials for Teaching The Kite Runner (CNY Reads) - includes discussion questions, author biography, timeline of novel, related reading, and more

Guidelines for Discussion Group Facilitators - pdf

Discussion Questions from Publisher - these are also in the back of the book

Reading Questions (Catawba College)

Essay Questions (Westminster College)

Research Topics Related to The Kite Runner - pdf

Power Point Presentation (Univ. of Texas Arlington) - The Kite Runner: Historical, Political, and Cultural Contexts (by Hamed Madani)

DVD of Interview with the Author, Khaled Hosseini - available for check-out through Randall Library (PS3608.O832 C658 - in DVD Documentary Section)

Afghani Films

Kite Runner Assignments

Freshman Seminar Journal Ideas

Make a Kite Activity

Cultural Artifact Assignment

Information Literacy Assignment - pdf

 

UNCW/Jamie Moncrief