Daily Lessons for Teaching Are You Afraid of the Dark?

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: Prologue and Chapters 1-9-In the prologue: The author immediately places the reader into the action by describing four separate murders that have a seeming tie to one another. Although the link between the murders is not yet known, it is clear that what that link is could be the vehicle that drives the rest of the book forward. This lesson will discuss the nature of the murders...
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