Daily Lessons for Teaching Geek Love

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: Book 1: Chapter 1, The Nuclear Family: His Talk, Her Teeth FAMILY HISTORY - The novel opens with Al and Lil Binewski telling their children the story of how they met. A picture is painted of the children all sitting around, at the knees of their parents, learning their family history. Learning about family history is an important way for individuals to learn where they come from,...
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