Teaching Dandelion Wine | 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: Pages 1 - 11 The students will be able to describe a cause-and=effect relationship.

1) Possible Activities:

* Have the students use a cause-and-effect graphic organizer to explain behaviors of characters (i.e. Douglas jubilant, Father loving nature, Tom looking for a fight with his brother, etc...) within the story.
* Provide the students with a partially completed graphic organizer, with some causes and some effects...
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