Daily Lessons for Teaching Don't Look Behind You

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: Chapter 1 Don't Look Behind You begins with the sentence "The world as we knew it ended for us on a Tuesday afternoon in May." The author is using obvious foreshadowing to inform the reader that the narrator's life will change forever. This lesson will discuss the literary device of foreshadowing.

1) 1) Class discussion:
a) Discuss the opening sentence of the book and...
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