Teaching All the Pretty Horses | 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: Chapter 1 One of the earliest style issues evident in this book is the lack of quotation marks. The objective of this lesson is to make students aware of the use of punctuation marks.

1) 1. Open a class discussion: Have students read aloud a paragraph (or two or three) in which there is dialog. How can you tell there is dialog? Would the story have been...
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