Teaching A Land Remembered | Daily Lessons

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: Chapters 1, 2 and 3 In A Land Remembered, the main literary technique the author uses is flashbacks to tell the story of the MacIvey family. This lesson is about why Smith chooses to write the novel in this style and what it adds to the story.

1) 1) Class Discussion: When does the book begin? Why is it important that the end of the story is...
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