Daily Lessons for Teaching A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana

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: Prologue, Baby Book, Hair At first glance, the book appears to be a collection of assorted scenes, almost like a scrapbook, yet the chapters unfold as if they were part of a novel. The objective of this lesson is to read the Prologue and the first two chapters and determine how the author is going to establish the storyline through her use of disconnected scenes...
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