Teaching The Beet Queen | 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 Branch. In the Prologue of the novel, Louise Erdrich sets up a simple scene: two children step off a train. However, this simple scene conveys deep meaning due to Erdrich's careful writing style. One of the writing devices she uses is description, both of setting and of character. The objective of this lesson is to explore her descriptive writing style.