Daily Lessons for Teaching Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

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 "Goodbye, Daddy," the author's parents separate, with the father moving out of the family home. The objective of this lesson is to discuss the impact the loss of the father has on the family.

1) 1) What was the relationship of the author's parents like? Why did the father leave the family? How did this impact the family? What was the father's relationship with the...
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