Daily Lessons for Teaching Dancing at the Rascal Fair

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: "Dancing at the Rascal Fair" begins in Scotland and takes the reader to New York and across the vastness of America to Montana. The objective of this lesson is to discuss the setting of the book.

1) 1) Writing assignment: Write a paragraph or two discussing Scotland. What is the setting of the book at the beginning of the novel? How does Angus describe the city...
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