Teaching In Our Time | 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: "On the Quai at Smyrna" This chapter addresses the subject of human beings leaving one place for another either through duty or a frantic escape. The objective of this lesson is to understand the nature of transitions.

1) Lead the class in a discussion about transitions. Begin with a definition of the term and ask students for their impressions of what transitions mean. What...
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