Teaching Guards! Guards! | 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: * To understand the clichés and conventions of the fantasy genre so as to understand some of the background and the humor of this text, and to make some predictions about the plot and characters. * To practice formal descriptive writing.

1) 1 The teacher should introduce the book as a fantasy novel about dragons (the term "genre" should be introduced and explained).
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