Teaching Christy | 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: The book is based on the experiences of the author's mother. The author is enthralled by her mother's stories and she and her mother agree that much knowledge can be gained by telling the mother's history. The objective of this lesson is to examine the topic of family history and why the author and her mother feel that their history could help people, as...
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