Daily Lessons for Teaching Guilty Pleasures

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 1-7 Genre is defined as the category of a literary composition. The setting, events, and characters all contribute to creating Science Fiction Fantasy. The objective of this lesson is to learn about the genre of Science Fiction Fantasy.

1) 1) Class discussion: Genre is the category of a piece of literature. Based on what you have read thus far, what is the genre of Guilty Pleasures?...
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