Daily Lessons for Teaching Gold Mine

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: Chapters 1 - 5 A fictional thriller is a popular genre of fiction employing suspense, tension, and excitement. The objective of this lesson is to examine how the writing style of this section reveals the genre of this book.

1) 1) Class Discussion: What is a fictional thriller novel? Begin with a discussion of this now popular genre. Identify elements of a fictional thriller in this chapter....
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