Teaching All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes | 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: Section 1 The author begins by setting up the premise for the book and her reasons for being in Africa. The objective of this lesson is to study the premise of the story presented by the author.

1) 1. Class Discussion: Who is Maya Angelou? What type of book is this? What is a narrative memoir? Where does the author find herself? In which time era...
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