Daily Lessons for Teaching At Home in Mitford

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 significance of place, or setting, in a novel, such as small town North Carolina in Karon's book, can contribute to the overall effect and meaning of a work of literature. The objective of Lesson #1 is to discuss the choice of setting in Chapters 1-4.

1) 1) Classroom discussion: What description does Karon give about Mitford? What does she seem to think...
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