Teaching Eragon: Inheritance Book One | 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 first chapter in the book has a "Shade" in the book as well as "Urgals." The reader may not first recognize these words. The object of this lesson is to encourage students to infer meaning from the context of unfamiliar words.

1) 1) Discussion: Have the class look at the way that the words are used in the text. What about it explains the Shades...
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