Daily Lessons for Teaching After the Rain

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: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 The first two chapters of After the Rain explore the relationship between Rachel, a teenager struggling to assert her independence and her parents, Manny and Shirley. She compares them to the more affluent and impressive TV families like the Cosbys. Her own brothers are older and live far away. Her parents still refer to her as "Mouse," which bothers her greatly. Rachel's...
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