Teaching Dance of the Gods | 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: This book begins with a prologue. There are many different ways to use a prologue to introduce a story. In Dance of the Gods it begins with the children listening to the story that is about to be told in the book. The objective of this lesson is to look more closely at a prologue.

1) 1) Discussion: Explain the prologue used in Dance of the...
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