Teaching Incident at Hawk's Hill | 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: Prologue: The prologue exists almost exclusively for purposes of establishing the setting of the book. Students will explore the concept of setting and analyze the setting for this novel.

1) 1. Class Discussion: What is setting? Is it simply the location where the story takes place, or are there more components than that? Why does setting matter? Can a setting be right or wrong, or are...
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