Teaching Fifth Business | 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: Chapter 1: The purpose of this lesson is to study how stories in the first person and third person differ, and what difference it makes to the reader.

1) 1) Have the class define what the first person and third person narrative styles are. Make sure that they understand the first person uses "I," while the third person uses the "he/she" pronouns. Then have the class...
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