Daily Lessons for Teaching Cry of the Kalahari

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: Prologue In this chapter, Mark and Delia Owens are introduced as a couple who put their academic studies aside to travel to the Kalahari to study animals in their natural habitats. The objectives of this lesson are for students to explore the difference between academic and real-life studies and to discuss why this couple might have decided to pick up and move to the Kalahari for their...
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