Teaching Go Ask Alice | 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: The novel is written in diary-entry format, and it would be beneficial for the students to understand the advantages and drawbacks of this style. Objective: The students will understand the advantages and disadvantages of writing in the the "diary-entry" format.

1) Classwork:

1) Small group activity: Make a Venn diagram, and in the outer section, list the potential advantages and disadvantages of a story written...
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