Teaching Dawn | 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: The idea that a man who is going to kill another man doesn't know anything about his victim is a dark one. Today's objective is to talk about what students feel about being told to kill a man and then not knowing who the person is. Does it matter?

1) 1. Have students discuss their initial impressions of Elisha, or the boy/man who is...
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