Daily Lessons for Teaching The Colour of Magic

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 story begins with the Krullian astrozoologists trying to establish scientific proof for what has been, the reader can assume, a faith-based assumption--namely, that Discworld rests upon four elephants that are supported by the back of the great turtle. The astrozoologists are able to scientifically prove the existence of the great turtle, but not its gender. It is the quest for further scientific proof of the...
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