Daily Lessons for Teaching Assassin's Quest

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: Death. The story begins with a terrible death for Fitz, and although he is brought back to life, his thoughts are filled with the particulars of his death. The object of this lesson is to look at death.

1) 1. Homework. Individually, have students write about their own opinion of dying - are they scared of death or are they accepting of it? ...
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