Daily Lessons for Teaching The Fixer

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: After the townspeople find the murdered boy, rumors immediately begin to circulate as to the responsible party. The Black Hundreds accuse the Jews of killing the child. As the rumors circulate, Yakov grows very uneasy. The object of this Lesson Plan is to examine how rumors affect the plot's development.

1) 1. Task: Break into small groups and discuss how the rumors being circulated by the Black...
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