Teaching Deception Point | 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: Prologue | Chapters 1-5 Early in the book, the reader realizes that Rachel and her father have a strained relationship. In fact, the Senator's insistence that Rachel quit a job she loves shows how selfish and questionable his motives are. This lesson will discuss the nature of the strained relationship between Rachel and her father.

1) 1. Group Activity: Have the class split into groups of four...
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