Teaching One Day When I was Lost: A Scenario | 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: Part 1 the student will be able to discuss how to read a screenplay.

1) Classroom activity:
1. Teacher lecture includes: (1) origin of the material for the scenario; (2) Alex Baldwin as an author; (3) some historical context about Malcolm X.
2. Teacher led discussion on how to read a screenplay: (1) Unlike a novel, much of a screenplay is visual....
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