Teaching Four Summers | 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: Part 1 Sissie is the narrator of the story, and in the first part of the story, she is a young child. The reader sees the world from Sissie's perspective. This lesson will explore Sissie as a character and analyze her voice as a narrator.

1) 1. Class discussion - How would you define Sissie's style of narration? What is simple about it? What is complex about...
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