Teaching About a Boy | 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: Chapters 1-4 Nick Hornby, the author of "About a Boy" is a novelist, memoirist, screenwriter and essayist. He is best known for his novels "High Fidelity" and "About a Boy". This lesson discusses the author of the novel "About a Boy", Nick Hornby.

1) 1) Library Research: Have the students research the author, Nick Hornby. Explore the other works he has written, as well as his background....
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