Daily Lessons for Teaching Holidays on Ice

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: The SantaLand Diaries Sedaris plays a critical role in SantaLand as a dedicated elf, and he plays a crucial role as a storyteller as a clear-sighted, objective narrator. This lesson looks at the importance of voice to storytelling.

1) 1. Class discussion: What is meant by voice in storytelling? How does the tone of voice change the story? Is there a difference between voice...
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