Teaching The Fighting Ground | 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: Pages 3 through 15 In the first section of the book, the reader is introduced to a thirteen-year-old boy who wants to prove his manhood by going to war. Students will explore the notion of a coming-of-age novel by identifying the youthful attributes of the protagonist which will change over the course of the book.

1) 1. Class discussion: What is meant by the term coming-of-age? What...
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