Daily Lessons for Teaching Journey Into the Whirlwind

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 I, Chapter 1, A Telephone Call at Dawn | Part I, Chapter 2, The Red-Haired Professor Journey Into the Whirlwind is set in the Soviet Union during the reign of Joseph Stalin, in the 1930's and 40's. The objective of this lesson is to look at setting.

1) 1) Homework: Students will research and write a paper on the Soviet Union during the reign of...
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