Daily Lessons for Teaching The Call of the Wild

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 The first chapter of The Call of the Wild is a long one that covers some huge changes for the main characters and the general setting. The objective of this lesson will be to create a plot map of sorts so that following the rest of the book will be more easy and enjoyable.

1) 1) Discuss some different ways of mapping the plot....
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