Daily Lessons for Teaching All Creatures Great and Small

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: This objective is to allow the students to better understand the geographic, societal, cultural, veterinary medical, and historical settings for this book.

1) 1. Divide the students into 4 groups.
2. Have each group research one of the following topics:
a. What was the geography of the communities where the events of this book take place?
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