Daily Lessons for Teaching Breakfast of Champions

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 preface is presented as if it were non-fiction and factual; however it is part of an overall work of fiction. The objective of this lesson is discuss the preface as a whole and how it functions within the novel.

1) 1) Have each student write a preface for their own novel in the same style as Breakfast of Champions. What real world facts would you...
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