Daily Lessons for Teaching A Year in the Maine Woods

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: In Summer, A Traveling Companion, Adams Hill, Beginnings, Scrap Lumber, The Time of Bird Song, the author begins his year in the Main woods. This lesson will discuss "Summer," "A Traveling Companion," and "Adams Hill."

1) 1) Class Discussion: Summarize "Summer," "A Traveling Companion," and "Adam's Hill."

2) Small Group Activity: What is the purpose of each of these chapters? How do they prepare the...
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