Teaching Keeping Faith | 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: The genre of this novel is realistic fiction. Although the story is not true, it could happen. In fact, the author weaves some names of people who have lived or are alive today and some events into the novel that have actually happened. The objective of this lesson is to learn about the genre of the novel.

1) 1) Research: Research different types of genre and...
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