Teaching Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume One, 1884-1933 | 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: A biography is a nonfiction account of a person's life with facts and data to support the narrative. This lesson will discuss biographies.

1) Class Discussion: What is a biography? What information must be included in a biography?

Partner Activity: Ask your partner questions about his or her life from the day he or she was born up to the present day.

Individual Activity:...
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