Teaching A Time to Kill | 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: The crime around which this novel centers is filled high with tension for a host of factors. The objective of Daily Lesson #1 is to examine those factors and the environment in which Sheriff Ozzie Walls must execute his responsibilities.

1) 1) Small Group Activity: All students are to gather in small groups and discuss the crime which has taken place, the perpetrators and victim, her...
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