Teaching Betsey Brown | 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: Chapter 1 Betsey Brown is a young teenager who contemplates love and her family. She considers herself very different from the rest of her family. This lesson will focus on Betsey as she is introduced in the story.

1) 1. Class discussion: Why does Betsey feel different from the rest of her family? Can the reader see this in the story or is it something Betsey...
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