Daily Lessons for Teaching In Cold Blood

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: Part 1 The objective of Daily Lesson #1 is for students to be able to identify the characteristics of the genre: nonfiction novel, or true-crime novel.

1) 1) Class Activity: Have the students independently create a list of characteristics which describe this specific genre. Hold a discussion sharing the lists and compile one class-wide list.

2) Partner/Group Activity: Provide the students with a triple...
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