Teaching Anne of the Island | 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, 2, 3 Characters are crucial to stories and a plot line. All characters have a backstory though readers do not always know what it is. We are introduced to many characters in the beginning. This lesson will discuss the importance of characters and discuss the introduction of the various characters in the first three chapters.

1) 1. Class Discussion: What is a character? What is...
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