Daily Lessons for Teaching Dance Hall of the Dead

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: Genre is a type of literary work. The cover and back copy of Dance Hall of the Dead establish it as in the mystery genre. Events, setting, and characters are part of creating a mystery. The objective of this lesson is to learn about the genre of mystery.

1) 1) Class Discussion: What is genre? What is the genre of Dance Hall of the Dead. How...
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