Daily Lessons for Teaching Call It Sleep

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: Prologue The setting, both physical and historical, of Call It Sleep is vital to the story. It is set in a time when there are many immigrants flooding into America but when European immigrants were not necessarily welcomed--particularly those of Jewish descent. The New York setting enables the characters to interact with many different types of people and be exposed to a variety of experiences. The objective...
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