Daily Lessons for Teaching Civil Peace

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: Paragraph 1 (Page 1) An author expresses a story with a specific writing style. The chosen writing style determines the sentence structure, point of view, formality or informality of the story. Writing style is an important choice since it impacts the reader's story experience. In this first paragraph of Civil Peace we are introduced to Achebe's chosen writing style for this story. The focus of this lesson...
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