Daily Lessons for Teaching A Salty Piece of Land

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: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 Tully Mars is on a journey of self-discovery. But, like any trip, this journey is sometimes at the mercy of the weather. The objective of this lesson is understanding the importance of weather phenomena to events in the novel.

1) 1. Discuss as a class how weather signifies some kind of change throughout the novel, starting with the eroded padlock...
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