Daily Lessons for Teaching Cards on the Table

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: Detective fiction is a popular genre of crime fiction in which a detective, either professional or amateur, investigates a crime, often murder. The objective of this lesson is to examine how the writing style of this section reveals the genre of this book, Cards on the Table, as a detective fiction novel.

1) 1) Class Discussion: What is a detective fiction novel? Begin with a...
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