Teaching An Awfully Big Adventure | 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 0 The opening chapter of the book is a flash-forward. Students will analyze the flash-forward technique used by the writer.

1) 1. Class Discussion - How do you know that this chapter is a flash-forward? Cite specific examples from the book that cued you on what was happening. How did the flash-forward help set the scene for the book from the first...
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