Daily Lessons for Teaching A Test of Wills

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 The main characters of the novel are introduced in these early chapters of the novel. The objective of this lesson will focus on character.

1) 1) Class Discussion: Discuss the characters that have been introduced in the first two chapters of the novel. Ask students to list each character and discuss what is already known about them, focusing on traits that might foreshadow...
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