Daily Lessons for Teaching Handling Sin: A Novel

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: Part 1, The Call: Chapter 1, In Which the Hero Is Introduced and Receives a Blow Handling Sin sounds like a serious topic, but this novel written by Michael Malone is actually quite the comedy. The hero, Raleigh, is sent out on a scavenger hunt by his dying father, which leads to a series of adventures. It is said that many times, an author draws from his...
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