Teaching The Beginning of Spring | 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: Prior to this class students will receive instructions to research the author of Offshore, Human Voices, the Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald. They are to take a look at where she was born and raised, the professional writers she grew up around, and who were current when she began her career as an author. They are also to read a short synopsis of the book...
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