Daily Lessons for Teaching All You Need Is Ears

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: Chapters 1-3 George Martin introduces his autobiographical work, "All You Need Is Ears", with a short anecdote that takes place in Paris. The Beatles reached number one in America for the first time, and the Beatles stood him up for a recording session in Paris. Today's lesson considers the strategy of Martin and his co-author, Jeremy Hornsby, in presenting this particular story as the entry point...
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