Teaching Cat's Cradle | 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: To educate the class about what it was like the day that the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. This is to be done in such a way that the class will see it from different viewpoints.

1) Divide the class into four groups. One, represnting the American people, the second representing the Japanese people, the third representing the creator of the bomb and the fourth representing...
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