Daily Lessons for Teaching The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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: Aunt Polly feels that she's doing wrong by Tom when she doesn't beat him. The objective of this lesson is to explore why Aunt Polly's conscience tells her to beat Tom.

1) 1) Have students write down an example of a time they were punished. Have the students share their examples, tell how and why they were punished, and how they felt about the punishment. Discuss...
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