Teaching Cradle and All | 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: Book One: Chapters 1-2 Kathleen Beavier, a sixteen year old virgin, has learned she's pregnant. Kathleen's situation is an unexplained miracle. Chapters 1 and 2 establishes the foundation of other miracles left to happen. The objective of this lesson is to examine these recurring miracles.

1) 1. Class Discussion: What miracle has occurred? How are the characters reacting to this miracle? What...
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