Daily Lessons for Teaching In the Castle of My Skin

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: Chapter 1 Throughout Chapter 1, the author uses the word "consolation. The ways in which G.'s mother, in particular, is consoled by life's disappointments are studied in this lesson.

1) 1. Class Discussion: When it rains so much that G.'s home is leaking and day and night cannot be distinguished, his mother tells him he should not reject the consolation that his birthday "...had...
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