Teaching The Day They Came to Arrest the Book | 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: The first chapter of the novel introduces a number of key players in the story, and hints at issues between the previous librarian and the principal. This lesson will discuss the author's use of foreshadowing in the first chapter of "The Day They Came to Arrest The Book."

1) 1) Class discussion: The conversation between the history teacher, Nora Baines, and the new librarian, Deirdre Fitzgerald,...
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