Daily Lessons for Teaching Flash Fiction: Very Short Stories

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: In Brilliant Silence, bears tour in Chile and dance in the circus. The bears escape after their trainer is killed by a jaguar. After their escape, the bears live in Chile and on the surrounding islands. The bears' descendants learn to dance like their ancestors by the light of the moon. Examine learned behavior and how it effects the bears.

1) 1. The Kodiak bears are trained...
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