Daily Lessons for Teaching A Savage Place: A Spenser Novel

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 In Chapters 1 and 2, the author introduces the protagonist, Spenser, largely through phone calls with other people. It's revealed that he is a private investigator who is highly regarded by a past client, Rachel Wallace. Wallace has referred him to an investigative reporter, Candy Sloan, who is in need of a bodyguard in Los Angeles. Both phone calls reveal the man's quirky sense of...
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