Teaching I Am the Cheese | 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: The idea of a journey is a common occurrence in young adult novels. With a journey comes challenges, problems, and chances to become something great. Today's objective is to talk about the idea of a journey, what this means, and how it might affect the main character.

1) 1. Have each student create a definition for a journey as he/she sees it in his/her own...
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