Teaching Go Tell It on the Mountain | 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: John, has had an upbringing of the strictest sort focused mainly on the church and religious life. The aim of this lesson is to examine John's character.

1) 1) Class discussion. What do the students think is John's conflicts, motivation and goals? How does Baldwin express John's conflicts, motivation and goals within the narrative? In what way do the students think that John's character has been shaped...
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