Daily Lessons for Teaching Cloud Atlas

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 one, "The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing": This section of the book is written as a travel journal. This type of writing has a different flow and character from what students are used to reading in a novel. This lesson focuses on the type of writing that occurs, a travel journal, in this section of the book.

1) 1. Journal Assignment: When the students come...
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