Daily Lessons for Teaching A Lantern in Her Hand

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: The author of "A Lantern in her Hand," Bess Streeter Aldrich, wrote a number of novels which share the same themes as "A Lantern in her Hand," particularly the struggles faced by the pioneers of the Midwest. This lesson discusses the author of the novel, "A Lantern in her Hand," Bess Streeter Aldrich.

1) 1) Library research: Have the students research the author, Bess Streeter Aldrich....
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